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Dephect said:
Just wanted to confirm this. This is for other DWC users who have the same problem.

If your plants are droopy like mine check your water level. With DWC you want the water level to be below the net pot.

Why?
You don't want the water soaking the medium, you want the bubbles from the air stone to pop on the surface of the solution and splash the bottom of the pot hitting medium keeping it damp. If you over soak your roots you will have the same the same symptoms of a over watered plant. You need your roots to be somewhat exposed to air.

I poured the solution out leaving it 1"-2" below the pot.

Hopefully this will solve my problem and the plant has not been completely drowned.

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That is the general way of doing it but isnt set in stone. If you have a lot of air in your nutrients(excessive) you can submerge the net pot to just below the base of the stem. I fill my res until the pots are 2/3 submerged and it never causes problems, but I only do this to combat my height restrictions. You also only want to do this with the right medium. I use Hydrotron, but any rock like, non-absorbative medium with work. But to give you an Idea of the air I'm moving here are some pics of my tubs


my air pumps(2 per tub)

And heres what they can do