Warning: I spent 8 years breathing off my pony bottle wrong at 60 feet

I was doing a pipeline job off Galveston last month and my hat started free-flowing at 62 feet. I reached for my pony and sucked air like it was a straw in a milkshake. The tender on the radio said my voice went up two octaves and he could hear me wheezing. Turns out I had been cracking the valve just a quarter turn for years, which starves the reg at depth. A 20 year diver named Ray watched my gauge and said I was pulling 1.8 cubic feet a minute when the thing could only push 1.5. Now I open it two full turns and test it at the surface on every single dive. What are you all doing for pony bottle checks before you splash, because my old system was garbage.