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1st Cleaning Experience - 13 March

1st Cleaning Experience

I started at 4pm. Began by placing all the pots into a tub (which was used for my first Kratky method). The roots were breaking away and feels slightly slimy to touch. Dead is my guess, since I have cut of the stems like 5 days ago, and poured in 40ml of H2O2 to clean the system from any potential algae. 

Poured out the leca and pulled out the roots. The dead roots were easy to remove, and tried to save as many leca as possible, by shaking them out of the roots. 

All pots cleared and onto to washing the leca bucket with water spray in the bathroom. NOT EASY! Big number of leca floats and that makes it hard to remove the dead detritus. And pouring out water from the bucket almost always rested in floating leca being poured out as well. 





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