First Garden in DIY Bounty

Catnip, Parsley Sage and Thyme all going strong.. 
Added a few more seeds to the Romain pods as they were deep in the bottom and not seaming to germinate but one of those new ones on top seems to be starting to (green)

Will another few days and I will switch the pump from 1/11 to 5/25. 

I do not understand.. what do you mean?  Maybe you were responding to the wrong post?

AH, sorry, thought the white plastic things were called Pod but they are cages aren't they!
The cages were to sit on the deck originally but I had to add spacers which are what the white rings are.  The water spout under the deck was not low enough and was hitting the solid part of the cage. The spacers raise the cage 3mm so the water spout is in the opening between the legs of the cage.  The top of the cage fits into the tapered part of the spacer which makes  it more stable.  I was going to glue the spacers to the deck, but so far have just let them loose to see if it is an issue.

What is the issue that lets in the light?  Is it the cage is white and lets light in or is it they do not fit tight?  Is this issue on all models of just certain  deck designs?  I did notice that the bounty had that raised area and others did not.  I would be happy to work with you or anyone to design something that would fix the issue. 

My offer stands, would just need some measurements and picture to design and fabricate rings that match the angle of the tapper on the top of the cage and not raise it higher with the ring sitting flat on the deck.  Decks with raised bosses around the opening would be a little bit more trial  and error, but not hard.

Yes I do have extra cages, if you can take a photo of one of your cages in the hole, at the deck level that would help.  Also if you have a metric tape measure, just measure the diameter of the hole in the deck as best you can. With a couple pictures of how the cage sits  on the deck and the diameter of the hole, I can get a prototype made this weekend and in the mail next week to try for fit. I will send you my email address via PM to send the picture to, or we can do it here so others can watch the process.  I can post images of the CAD model and prototype as I work on it.  I had to guess at the deck hole size when I built this clone and chose 35mm by measuring the cage and looking at pictures of the bounty online.   I am interested to know how close I got.

This morning I had my first serious design failure.  It was something I had feared would happen and I did try to plan and mitigate for it, but alas no dice.   This box I used is for storing media like CD DVDs or even papers and pictures.  So the lid locks but does not seal to allow airflow.  Alas as the sponges in the cages have swelled the have expanded to the point of impacting my water spots backing up the flow.  My over flow slots are too close to the edge of the box and water found a passage to the outside of the box.. and  got into the electronics box and all over the floor.. Plants are fine, in glasses of water for now while I figure a work around  and look for a better box. Just part of the process of building something with off the self items...

Sorry it failed, airscapes.  Such a disappointment.

Oh, dear!  I'm so sorry.