Beat The Heat – FlexiTank Pro

If you want to keep your water and nutrient temperatures stable in a hot growing environment why not say ‘Tanke Schöne’ to FlexiTank Pro! This heat-beating collapsible reservoir has the potential to take a huge weight off your mind during the summer season. And we’d be doing a disservice to growers everywhere if we failed to unpack its functions and features. 

Many a grower, whether indoor or outdoor, will appreciate the ways in which the seasonal excesses of our solar chum can affect their waters.

Make no mistake, as humans we’re delighted that the sun has got his hat on (not sure what sort of hat). And we’re pleased that he’s coming out to play (although you shouldn’t really toy with fire/nuclear fusion). But as growers we’d really rather his emissions didn’t cause our water supply to overheat or cause our fertilisers to drop out of solution. Thanks to FlexiTank Pro you can enjoy the sun, safe in the knowledge that it’s cool runnings in the reservoir department.

You might say, ‘sustained periods of hot weather are nary a problem where I live.’ Well, here’s the thing. Keeping your water and nutrient temps in check is about stability in the face of spikes as much as anything else. Just a day or so of heatwave whilst you’re elsewhere and the damage can be done. FlexiTank Pro includes some obvious, and some less obvious features, that help you avoid getting into hot water.

You get a thick, durable, heat and light reflective skin which beautifully disguises a rugged, fully collapsible design within. Concealed tank supports and internal capacity markings add neat edges to the proven FlexiTank design. Those internal markings are a huge help in showing you exactly where your consumption levels are – no more outside/inside guesstimating.

Although it may look like a long tall glass of cold milk FlexiTank Pro doesn’t come from a cow, although it does have an udder, but only one, and that udder is in fact a tap. You could just about imagine FlexiTank Pro having horns, but those ‘horns’ are actually nuts on the filling ports on the top of the tank.

That’s a long-winded dairy-based way of introducing the range of fittings that come with the reservoir. A durable, properly machined, easy-to-install click fit tap fits into the lower body of the Pro. The tap is ready for connection to a 16mm or 16-9mm click fit filter and beyond that your pipework. Around the secure zip-closure lid are multiple, optional filling ports which are ideal if you’re running a system that requires constant or regular top-up.

And there you have it, your bona-fide cooling tower. 100L, 225L, and 400L sizes are available now and ready to ship from your local stockist or autopot.co.uk. And, just think, if you cant afford a getaway this summer you could buy a bunch of them and wander around like you’re in Santorini. Idyllic!