Swim Needs Hydro Help

Swim has been given a lemmon skunk clone. he has raised it to be decent size, he began taking clones using a product called gel 2 root. roots are just beginning to show swim wants to use a top feed homemade hydro setup. has many questions since this is his 1st attempt at hydro. his plan is to use a 30 gal rubbermaid with a seperate resavoir. He only wants to do appx 2 plants at a time. his plan is to cut 2 holes in the rubbermaid's lid to fit in his net pots. He is wanting to fill his netpots with hydroton, and just use a submergable pump in the seperate resavoir to pump his water/nutes to the tops of his pots, putting a hole in the bottom of the 30 gal rubbbermaid to drain back into the resavoir. He will manually mist leaves as needed. He is worried about transplanting his clones from the root 2 gel into the hydroton. I told him I thought most ppl transplanted into rockwool cubes, then surrounded that with the hydroton. He said he heard that using rockwool cubes was not neccessary??? but worries about damaging his roots trying to transplant directly into the hydroton??? Told him I would browse the net and see what I could find out for him. Also since this is his 1st attempt, was very uncertain about a watering schedule. Said he heard most ppl use a 1-4 ratio with like 1 hr on 4 hrs off. I Told him that may work for a full grown plant, but may need to start clones off slower than that, and only run a couple times a day for less than an hr a day. He is planning on using GH Flora gro and GH flora bloom as nutes. Swim got his clone from a mother plant that was began from feminized seed. He said there has been a couple of soil grows from this plant, and the fruit is great other than only avg 1 oz dried / plant. He is hoping that when he switches to hydro the yield will increase. Swim says he will do what he can to get me some pics to post, but does not currently have a camera. Any info regarding his efforts is greatly appreciated. If you find something swim is doing to be completely wrong or off feel free to say so. SWIM is not affraid of discrepencies, and only wants to make the best he can of what he has.

Im completely lost,what's a "swim".

I put rooted cuttings into hydroton without rockwool all the time. Care must be taken or the roots can rip off the clone.

i am transplanting from easy cloner into net pots with hydroton.do i put the rooted clone in the bottom of the net pot 1st then surround with hydroton or leave about half full of hydroton then the clone and then fill the rest of the way so the roots must go through the hydroton?