Anonymouse
Sith I care
Two days is pretty fast. You might be using a lot more extract than you need to interfere with resin adhesion.
If that's not the case, though, consider mixing up your jug of red water to have about 5-8% ethanol content. Using Everclear or grain alcohol is probably cheapest if an option where you live, but otherwise diluted vodka works just as well. Perfectly safe to hit through, but now you should have no issues with stuff reproducing in there, or at the very least a much longer period between needing water changes.
Due to the one small channel between base and can, and the piece's huge reciprocal volume (relative to most designs), the thing won't so much "blow back" as "pump back". This isn't just the water refilling the stem like with most pieces; all the water lifted into the top can must drain back, and since the small opening doesn't allow any gas to pass up into the can while water is flowing like most percs will, a volume of air the same as the the volume of water that drains must be must instead be forced out the input joint to equalise pressure. It'll happen a lot slower than the "puff" you see on a more open perc design, but it'll all be slowly pumped out over the water draining duration. Might not push the load out your bowl if combusting, but it might cherry it into fire with the slow, sustained flow.
But then, as has been said multiple times, this is a ridiculously impractical piece. You wouldn't want it as a regular tool, but as a novelty, it looks like a lot of fun. For the price it is, it'll pay for itself just sitting there to break out occasionally to show friends the wacky whirlpool. If you wind up using it any more than that, bonus.
Hmm. I was liking the male style joints on the first two bubblers I linked, and would want that if getting a bubbler.
On the bong I do like the female joint because it's wide and would just look comical with a conical opening. At least to me. And you are probably right about the splash guard. I wouldn't know.
I'm probably liking the style more than the function on the male vs. female joint thing. But show me what you had in mind for my needs please. Doesn't hurt to look it over and come to a conclusion on if I want it or not.
The female joint, with its thick, reinforced lip, is WAY more durable than the male joint, and going to stand up to accidental knocks better. For general purpose use, it's probably the joint you want. The only advantage to a native male joint is the ability to use an old-fashioned separate-dome nail without needing an adapter.
Sometimes technological development gets in its own way. If we had started dabbing with domeless nails, designed for the pieces that already existed, we'd never even have had male pieces, and thus a lot more hardware would work happily together without adapters. The early dab designs used a a male-to-male adapter to hold the nail and dome, designed to fit conventional female pieces, but after these had been around a while and grown in popularity, people started to make glass with native male input that didn't need the adapter. Now such pieces are all over the place causing an unnecessary schism in the market and lots of end-user confusion, and they don't seem to be going anywhere.
Still, given vapes and combustion bowls are all still virtually universally male output, and now a whole lot of new-style domeless nails are too, female input is clearly the smart bet for durabilility, flexibility, and compatibility.
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I would be the test dummy but I am saving up for a few other items first 
