johnnycheech
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Looking for a method to fill/empty my reservoir. My tank is quit a bit away from a water source so I need some kind of pump to empty it mainly. Wondering what people use?
MrNorCal said:To drain my tank I do exactly the same thing, I attach a hose to a pump and pump it to the bathroom. To fill my tank I have a reverse osmosis filter hooked up under my sink. It has a switch and a hose running from it. I connect the hose to a float valve in a 55 gallon drum and turn on the R.O. When its full, it stops it. Then I just wrap up the hose and put it under the sink until next time. The 55 gallon drum is in my grow room, so when it's full I put the pump and hose in it and pump the water into my reservoir. If you don't want a R.O. filter theres no reason you couldn't make a set up like this coming straight from the tap.
The Hemp Goddess said:How do you pH and nute your water if it is pumped directly from the RO to the drum and then to the res?
warning!!!! if you try to buy a 400 gph pump from home depot, they will charge you 10x what the hydro stores charge..johnnycheech said:Looking for a method to fill/empty my reservoir. My tank is quit a bit away from a water source so I need some kind of pump to empty it mainly. Wondering what people use?
wow !!! that is different..i tried to buy a 360 gph from hd and it was 100 something...i got the 1050 gph for my 4x8 from a hydro store for 60.DonJones said:PUFF MONKEY,
I'm not challenging what you said about Home Depot over charging, but boy around Spokane, the situation is just the reverse. In fact one hydro store told me to go to HD or LOWES buy all of my pumps, including getting a shrub sprayer and a pump from either of them to build a cloner instead of buying one of their $200+ cloning machines.
Sometimes, PETCO is another good source of pumps, including drain/fill, circulating and air as well as air stones. IF you use their PETCO brand stuff, I've found at least here locally their prices beat PETSMART, WALMART and the hardware box stores.
Since they use their own stuff in their saltwater aquariaums which have sometimes thousands of dollars of exotic fish in them, I would thinki they must be pretty reliable. I know if I had thousands of dollars at risk, I wouldn't use unreliable crap regardless of who made it. It is easy to conceal the brand name of the pumps you are using on your stock tanks so that no one would ever know that you weren't using the store's brand. NOT only that, but PETCO sells several other name brands that are considerably more expensive than their house brand.
Good smoking everyone and SHOP around for equipment before laying down your hard earned money, and if your money comes easy enough that you can afford to throw it away, I know most of use here will be happy to accept it.
DonJones said:MrNorCal,
Please explain how to subscribe to a thread. I've accidentally done it but don't know how I did it.
In detail please.
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