that is true i plan to make this a flower room reason why both are setup now.. they are dimable so they are turned way down.. this just happens to be my start so i figured start in here.
i plan to use a water pump and hose
The pump, if it's a typical side feed, will start grabbing air before it can empty the full volume leaving a couple inches in the container. The bottom feed style pumps like are used with the ebb and grow system are good at getting more than most pumps.
good info.. i figured if the pump i ended up with wouldnt drain it all the way i could carry the res and rinse it anyways.
Well this might prove difficult to do once you have plants flowering in there. Generally I trellis my buds to hold the weight up, I use horti-trellis plastic stuff not the stretchy string shit that leaves fibers in your flower. I wouldn't want to have to move the res or even move the lid if I can avoid it. So having a drain line plumbed into the tote with a shutoff valve might prove helpful. This way you can pump it down from the outside of the res using the normal magdrive pump setup for inline instead of submerged.
that is true that would make it difficult to do in flower with a trellis. i wasnt even thinking about that..
thats a good idea!
I just slide my lid over enough (4-5 inches) to drop the pump in and then slide it back.
Depends on the capacity of the res and the size of the plant and the stage of growth.