The horizontal concept has completely changed the co2 game. I was skeptical when I first saw it, like whaaaaat? Admittedly I didnt even pay much attn for a while either. Then more and more kept talking about it so I finally spent more than 2 minutes reading the concept, and was like hmm... makes sense, think I'll try it
So with no regard to the formula or overflow business, I just turned one of mine sideways. Then I believed. Flash forward a year and however months later, all my reactors are now sideways. That'd be 8 for anyone keeping score at home
I remember a few months later a conversation about it on fb, there were some skeptics. I had just chimed in with my personal experience, one of my points being how it took less co2 to get the same drop . I believe it was
@raj who said thats impossible. 100% dissolution is 100% dissolution. Theres no way its taking less. I couldnt argue with that logic, and it actually stumped me for a while thinking about it. Because I knew what I saw. I literally had to back it off for fish gasping at the same injection rate
Then a month or two later it finally dawned on me. I wasnt getting 100% with the old reactor, it just looked like it upon a casual observation. A very close look showed plenty of near invisible micro bubbles, with lots quickly finding their way to the surface. I was able to notice this on some of my other tanks with vertical ones still going. Id just been calling it "100%" all these years. In my mind it was. But flipping one sideways clearly demonstrated how the old way wasnt 100% at all, and I was actually losing a good bit
In retrospect having the sole criteria be "cant see none" probably isnt the most reliable way to assume 100% dissolution. There's likely a very large amount of micro bubbles just below visible. But I digress...
Tldr; Thanks Yugang, you da freakin man!!
