done it
I got up at 5am, turned all the lights and co2 on and went back to bed.
Jeremy Gay (technical editor, PFK) and Neil (photographer) came to my flat at 11am this morning, lovely guys really friendly and down to earth which was great.
firstly they LOVED the tanks which was a huge relief, we had a long conversation about the EI method i did my best to explain the principle to my amazement he was very open minded and did not at any point dismiss the theory unlike most over here in the UK, George had written an introduction to EI for me to pass onto Jeremy, that was greatfully recieved along with the long winded 18 page tom barr version (some bedtime reading for him lol) a full fert schedule for my tank and links to aquaessential, TFF and the barr report.
thankfully Jeremy remembered George from their email conversations and refferred to him as the "guy who's writing some articles for us while he's in the Faulklands". i showed him some pics of georges tank layouts (just to confirm him as a skilled aquarist), even better the reply was "oh yes i've seen those, we featured the recent one in lateral lines when we published his letter regarding phosphate and nitrate fertalisation" - mission accomplished george if your reading this, your all teed up and ready to swing! he's not going in depth with the EI explination so as not to tread on the toes of your article, just a brief summary.
he noted down all the lighting mods, filter mods and general hardwear, then a full fish and plant list as you'd expect.
we then sat down for a cuppa and started the interview, how did i get into the hobby, what books did i use, how did i overcome problems etc... needless to say TFF was the answer to all of the above. i did explain my frustration regarding the trades attitude towards forums. the amount of times i've mentioned TFF to LFS employes and had the "forums are a waste of time, full of kids messing about and telling you whats what" type reply is countless. Jeremy agreed with me, in fact he made a point of saying the reader visits are usually based around club members tanks but nowadays forums are just like clubs providing a means for a community of like minded people to share thoughts and ideas. couldn't have put it better myself.
so watch out william, TFF is going to be all over the article, your hits should go through the roof (in case you need any technical preperation.)
the article should make it into the June addition which will be out about 4 weeks from today.
they took a ton of pictures of both the Rio180 and Rekord60 plus a mug shot of me sitting next to the 180 so hopefully there will be a few good ones in the mag.
Well deserved too I might add! 
