So Much for MECH 371

Well, despite the best laid plans of mice and men, it appears my self-made Python is not going to work without some additional modifications. I think I understand the Venturi effect in principle, but I'm not getting it to work for me. I assume whoever designed the waterbed fill & drain kit has put a lot more thought into this, so I'm going to have Ace Hardware online send a kit to the local store so that I can still make use of all the tubing I bought.

As a consolation to my ineptitute, I got some new plants for the tank from Alamo Aquatics. Since some of the plants are doing so well (the foxtail is growing everywhere, and I'm always replanting water sprite pieces), I had to be creative about where I would put stuff. The new hornwort, I put in at the side of the tank around the CO2 diffusor, and I'm hoping it can't somehow steal it all before it gets to the other plants. The glossostigma needed plenty of surface area, of course, so I put it at the far left-hand side and helped some of its tentacles find the soil.