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Hopefully I am the only one with this issue. I have an Aquamax calcium reactor I am about to take out in the driveway and run it over with my truck. I have been battling tuning this thing for over a year and I am fed up. I bought the feed pump they suggested and the flow through the unit is very easy to set and maintain at about 60 drops per minute. The problem comes with the CO2 side. I have tried everything from Stainless check valves, Plastic ones, multiple needle valves, plastic air valves and cant keep this thing even close to 10 bubbles per minute. Most of the time it runs for a day at best and stops putting in bubbles. I have a Milwaukee regulator and changed the factory needle valve with ones from Marine depot that cost $35 or so. I have jacked up the pressure, Turned down the pressure. I have spent countless hours in a chair with a stopwatch watching and timing this thing. I have seen more expensive regulators, but if I pay $350 for a regulator and it does the same thing I will lose my SH##. Any help will be appreciated.