Water level from net pot / Net pot depth.

Logan Burke said:

See this that is what I theorized but wasn't sure about, but the bacteria no matter how low in numbers should increase eventually if temps/food is available and correct. Do you know if there's anything in particular I can do to give the bennies more food? Or is the food naturally provided via your roots and other microbes in the water? Sorry for the questions, it's just that my pH has been dropping very fast and even though I am applying Hydroguard and roots look ok besides infected roots from before it still worries me. Mostly because the root ball is soo massive (veggied too long, roots almost too big for the bucket), I can't check all roots properly.

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To be honest, I'm not sure about how it would work ie: giving the bennies more food, and I'm not sure what to say about your PH dropping. Mine always slightly rises!

That's a good thing...means your plant is sucking in some N among some other nutrients. 24hrs within a res change my pH always goes up by about 0.5, and did this time as well, but I am just now discovering that one of my bucket's lines is clogged. I checked pH and ppm on another bucket, although the pH was still 5.6 vs the normal 5.8, everything was normal and water was recirculating. In the other bucket, the one whose line isn't pushing out any water, the pH and ppm's are way off and I'm guessing it's where it's not recieving the pH up that I applied to the heart. Soooo, now I gotta figure out how to unclog a single line in my RDWC without having to pull the line out of the netpot, for I ran my water line down into it, and if I pulled it out it'd be ripping roots....am I making any sense? Haha sorry man, my mind's a bit hazey right now.