Just brought an eight pot wilma and I dont know if its just me but two things strike me as obvious, firstly how the blooddy hell are you supposed to completley empty the tank ???
The filter doesn't reach the bottome of the res ????
any ideas??
And secondly the drippers or arrow feeders will they get enough of the rootball wet ?? and watered ?
Might seem blindinly obvious but help would very much be appriciated.

With emptying the tank you will need to syphon it off or tilt the tank so that you can get as much water to the pump as possible, the pump wil not totally drain the tank.

Yes the drippers will get the root ball nicely wet so no need to worry about that .



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[quote name='StonedSkunk' date='Sep 30 2008, 09:27 AM' post='1480068']
With emptying the tank you will need to syphon it off or tilt the tank so that you can get as much water to the pump as possible, the pump wil not totally drain the tank.

Without sounding stupid how am i going to tilt the tank with 8 "tomato" plants growing out of it ????
Is there no other way ?
Doesnt that seem stupid to have to tilt the tank ??

lift the top tank up from the pump end and slide a piece of wood in between and then slide the top tank over the wood so you can get your hand in. make sure u do it before the pumps been on else water will drip everywhere form the top tank.
i pull the pump off the feeding pipe and attach a piece of hosepipe to suck the water out. and for the last bit of water i use a flat sided water bottle and a sponge.
i do a water change once every 2 weeks for about a month then the water starts getting messy so i do one every week then. i start them on 6 feeds a day when on 18 hr light then drop it down to 4 feeds a day when on 12 hr light.

Alternatively you could drill a hole in the tank and put on a tap. They also sell at B&Q a 15 quid syphon - it's a hose with a hand squeeze pump built into it....saves sucking, tilting etc.