Dal33tdude12 said:

Thanks creamcorn you are making me feel better lol, yes this is my first flush and some of the cakes have been in there about a week and a half,and some a little under a week, im just really nervous is all, no i didnt dunk or roll i just put them straight into the PMP,
"did you double-end case or roll them in verm to help retain moisture/promote pinning?" What is a double end case???? I didnt know whether or not to dunk and roll them, will you give me some more info about that? When i touch the cakes i dont feel water like it feels kinda dry, they look pretty good though, Any more good tips good sir? Thanks for all your help. Also do you think i should switch from Lava rocks to Perlite or just quit being paranoid about that?

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decepticon said:

the messy part comes when you empty out the tub
clean, and refill it.

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i clean mine once per 3 months... i replace the top layer of perlite like i said by scooping it out and putting fresh down, but as for dumping everything and giving it a real good cleaning, i don't do it very often - and when i do, it takes about a half hour... its really not a big deal.

ghostofbmarley said:

creamcorn -

Nice FC.  Thanks for the visuals.  I PM'd someone tonight as I was bugging that a potential container was too deep...  Yours looks nearly identical to the size of it though.

And to stay OT, what is your mixture of perlite in that container?  Looks pretty clean to me.  Maybe most people's problms stem from not rinsing perlite in a colander or using not a high enough dry perlite layer.
-ghost

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its just straight perlite, not a mixture of anything... have used miracle gro brand perlite that has fertilizers in it (was all i could find at the time) and that's more of an off-white color... recently switched to plain perlite because i found it (the fertilized stuff works just fine by the way, poses no contam risk or anything funky like that) and that's a more pure white color... rinse in a collander like you say and put it in wet.  every coupla weeks when there's less going on in there i mist the hell out of the perlite to replenish moisture but otherwise i do like i said - scoop the top off when it looks messy and dump some fresh damp perlite on top.

i'd clean more often if i had to but i've never had a contam in that FC, ever, so i don't feel a need to expend the effort