B'ham..... thanks for the replacement cartos! The new ones are working better and don't seem to have the immediate "spitting" issue. I think I had a combination of several factors at work, which I am trying to weed through, one by one. I have been using the 1.5 dc cartos almost exclusively since I started with tanks, so I couldn't understand why I was suddenly having this problem. The new 1.5 cartos that you sent now register at 1.5 instead of 1.3 or 1.4, so that is the main part of the improvement. However, I got to thinking about the issue and I realized that I switched juices (from my beloved Java Junction, which I am still hoarding) to WOW flavors (mainly cinnablaze). This may have contributed to the problem occurring now. I now realize that the issue was really noticable when I used the Wow juices. I know the cinnablaze is hard on cartos, so getting less life out of them was pretty much a trade off I made, but it seemed to happen from the first fill. When I use my Java Junction from the same box, much less of a problem.
Long story ~ short version, I took your advice and tried the 2.5 dc cartos you included. This seemed to have resolved my problems when using WOW juices.
I hope this makes some kind of sense to you (you know I can't talk techy
I so appreciate your help and hope maybe this will help others as well.
Long story ~ short version, I took your advice and tried the 2.5 dc cartos you included. This seemed to have resolved my problems when using WOW juices.
I hope this makes some kind of sense to you (you know I can't talk techy