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Old 02-14-2009, 07:21 AM
Cesa Cesa is offline
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Hi Ron I would like to know about using chlorine as a disinfectant agent. is there any potential problem after using it to clean the system and the growing media? regards

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Old 02-14-2009, 07:22 AM
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Hi Cesar You can use chlorine or bleach to disinfect at a ten percent mix with water. For my large systems I plug up the intake pipe then fill the cups full with water and then pour a little full strength bleach in each cup and let it sit overnight to loosen up any slime.
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