Hey folks! I'm trying to make something here for a non aquarium related use and after scouring the internet for a while I'm seeing that people who maintain aquariums already use some off the shelf assembled devices to achieve a means to some of those ends! So I'm wondering if anyone can give me some suggested products to purchase for this use case?
I have a large container of distilled water with small quantities of hydrogen peroxide that is set up with 5 disk fogger floats to create fog for THE ULTIMATE VAPE, as well as and more importantly the proper conditions for all of my Shitake and Lions Mane mushroom spawn bricks. However at 1.50 a gallon the price of distilled water quickly adds up, so I'm trying to keep the topped off water reserves cleaner longer to have less equipment disassembly and sterilization.
Rather than running UV safe plastic tubing through cathodes chamber of the appropriate spectrum and shopping through alibaba and cross referencing scientific papers, I saw your lovely hobby already has small water pump/UV/Filtration media combination units that prevent the water from accumulating gross crap while organisms are living and thriving within it, so I get the feeling this is the perfect type of thing to toss in a 10 gallon bucket of distilled water to keep it more pure throughout the week.
I need to keep the water reservoir a little warmer to encourage the mushrooms to really fruit and this seems like a great way to counter-balance any contaminant hospitable variables I'm going to be introducing.
I was also thinking a small air stone/bar of sorts and a small air pump,but I'm not sure how high pressure of a pump is needed for water of that depth. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I'd love to find something small and bang this out for under a hundo if possible.