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I have seen tepins growing with a nurse tree grow 15-20' high.   This is an exception and not the rule.

Growth habit is chinense, ie, multiple fruit per node.

This could be a landrace cayenne bred locally.

I have always used General Hydro nutrients with success.

Looks very much like a cayenne that was renamed by an Indonesian.

Fotos of the plants will help

This looks very like an Xalapa landrace to me.

Cloning is easy and the only sure way to keep your chiles  true to form.

For one thing, you are using too much nutrient.

The air pump actually adds heat unless  you are evaporating somewhere.   I try to keep nutrient between 68-74f, where the DO increases quickly.   More  oxygen also deters pathogens.

The problem with nutrient temperatures is this. You want oxygen in the nutrient.   oxygen-solubility-water-2 by Willard Bridgham, on Flickr

Original fotos of fruit looks like a single fruit per node. I didn't blow them up.

The growth is annuum.

Yellow bird chile is quite productive       yellowb11 by Willard Bridgham, on Flickr

Pissing contest     pissing contest by Willard Bridgham, on Flickr

You're going to have to keep track of lots of things in hydro including nutrient concentration and composition, Ph, temperature and etc. Write it down.   I don't know how many plants will feed from the 27 gal reservoir, but analyzing your data will give you a signal when things are going south.

You don't have to change the whole thing, but, if you don't, concentrations of things you don't want  including pathogens will increase in the reservoir until you have problems:    Change the whole shebang: water's cheap. Once every two weeks is good. 

  Patience is a virtue in chile growing.

Habanero manzano is quite large and good.       IMG_2834 by Willard Bridgham, on Flickr

Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) will control fungus gnats