Quote Originally Posted by davidstcldfl
At UF: if we had a smile face with a 'thumbs up', I'd post it here for you..

At Alex: so your adding about 10% more water to the system 'each week'. That may account for your slow growth.....besides a high PH, you may be losing lots of nutes due to a possible leak (?)


The water your adding...
'what' is it's PH ?

If your not pre-treating the added water for chlorine/chloromines....plus you start adding acid....remeber what UF shared, you'll have even more chlorine

I currently use 2 barrels split up and connected by some abs and as far as i can tell there is no moisture around the GB nor the floor around the area. the only reason i can think of so much water loss is that one of the tanks sits in the sun, but even then , my water temps are around 60-65(not sure exactly how much water temp effects evaporation). when i add the water i simply fill up a home depot bucket straight from my tap and the ph of that sits around 8.3. also, doesnt the chlorine effect fish more than plants?