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Looks good, Matt. You got some nice new additions!

Looks great Steve. That cluster of monti's is awesome.

I agree and certainly didn't mean to imply either should go. Given the choice, if one HAD to go, then I'd pick Omar. BUT, I'd like to see them both stay. Remembering the Steve Phillips days, I'll take Omar any day of the week over him. Oh and on the Henderson thing, you're right there as well...

Should be Omar. During the off season, Willie said they needed more and better pitching. Omar disagreed and basically said "make do with what you have". It was definitely a pen full of tired arms that cost them their place in the play offs. Sadly, it'll probably be Rick Peterson who pays the price.

Will is a Mets fan too. Maybe he'll cut us Met fans a break and TRIPLE the prices for the phillies fans.

David Wright isn't the only with red eyes tonight. As a few of these guys know, I bleed orange and blue. I'm completely devasted. I had to stare at my tank for about an hour just to bring my blood pressure down to 320/185! Yeah, I'm pretty miserable too . . .

The fluid is at 1.0264/35. Both of mine were calibrated with RO/DI quite a while ago and were at 1.027/36.

To be honest, both of our refractometers were off by so little using RO/DI that I can't imagine there being much of a difference either way. I'm not sure it's worth all of the hoopla. But the bottle was only $3 so it was worth doing the experiment, plus I have enough left to calibrate every...

OK, I got my answer. The numbers on the right are PSU or "Practical Salinity Units" (which have replaced parts per thousand). The PSU should be 35 with the calibration fluid. That is the same as 1.0264 sg. This is based on a temperature of 25*C. Here is the link to the thread I got the info...

Hi Steve, Welcome to NJRC. We're glad you found us. Are you part of the Mountain Valley Reef Club? and if so, were you one of the guys at MACNA?

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Since this is a family friendly board, I can't even begin to express how I would like to respond to this thread.

The reason I have heard not to use water (RO/DI or Distilled) is because with them, you are calibrating the refractometer at a range lower than the level where you will be seeing results for NSW. Since your tank water is going to be more in the 1.023-1.025 range, you'd want to calibrate it...

We used the RO/DI method when we initally calibrated ours (which has always seemed accurate enough). Lately, though, there has been a good bit of commentary on here that says using RO/DI is fairly ineffective. I figured I'd a get a bottle of the 53.0 ms fluid and calibrate it "properly" to see...

OK, so I picked up a bottle of calibration fluid. When I put it on my refractometer, I get about 1.028 for sg and 37 for whatever the reading on the right is (lol, never stopped to figure out what that means!). What should those be calibrated to with the solution? TIA.

My guess would be the one with the bad breath!

Hi Clempaff. Welcome to NJRC! Thanks a lot for the info.

Didn't I see something like that in the original Dr. Doolittle?

I WANT ONE! What is it ???

Nope, it is $5 more per month, though. They advertise it as $10 per month, but you can return the normal cable box that is costing you $5, so the net is $5.