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Installed it in 10 minutes this morning and my RODI production is up tenfold. Whisper quiet. No idea how I lived without a booster and this one has all the bells and whistles (on/off with low/high pressure, backwash, etc). If this holds up for a couple weeks, I'm going to buy another for my home...

Trade it in for one of these... https://www.amazon.com/Milwaukee-MA887-Refractometer-Temperature-Compensation/dp/B007Z4ITWU/ref=sr_1_8?dchild=1&keywords=aquarium+salinity&qid=1588343992&s=industrial&sr=1-8 Simple to use and one of the most reliable investments I made in this hobby.

So, as posted, my last order from Live Aquaria, of 150 snails, contained 5 bags of trocus (25 in each bag), all arrived dead and putrid. LA was great with the customer service, within 24 hours I had a full refund. Still needing snails, went to the old trsuworthy source, John at Reefcleaners...

I have 3 or 4 1" bulkheads (threaded) if you need em, think one or two has the overflow cage piece as well. If not, if anyone else needs them, let me know.

There's an Irish saying, 'Murphy was an optimist'

HA! I was talking ships from the Revolution and I just saw RFBF's post on page 1. This is why I'm not an archeologist.

I just got out of a 3 month battle where I was almost ready to give up the tank due to hair and turf algae. I was ill for a couple weeks and it overran, seriously overran the tank. Initially used Vibrant to questionable effect. About 8 weeks ago I did a 3 day total blackout and on re-opening...

Those little 3 leaf things near the directions are fleur-de-lis, a French style of metalwork. You ought to get it appraised, maybe its off an old French ship (they did lend us a lot during the Revolution).

I have 3 hydra 26HDs over my tank. I can survive with 2 for a while. Let me know if you need to borrow one for a few weeks/months, I'll pull it from the fixture tomorrow.

Scum of the Earth, the whole lot of 'em

The shipping looked OK. Bags were all wrapped and then in a sytro box with some heat packs. I think the problem was that the snails appeared to be prepackaged in lots of 25 and guessing these prepackaged groups were probably dead before they were even put in the shipping box.

So, as Amado pointed out, there was/is a big sale at Liveaquaria on snails. I decided to take advantage and renew my cuc in all tanks. Ordered 125 trocus, 15 cerith, 15 nassarius, 15 margarita I received 125 dead trocus, 12 dead cerith, 4 dead margarita. For 170 snails ordered 29 arrived alive...

I'm tempted to get back into RD2 with the recent patches, but it never seems to hold my interest for too long. I'm not against open world gaming, but I get sorta burned out. I stopped the original RD with about 80% complete, Horizon Zero Dawn at 70%, Witcher at 85%. The only game I've completed...

I'm burning charcoal tonight for a few sirloins. But... I'm gonna need that Jerk Chicken recipe. I do a mean blackened, but a good jerk recipe would be something.

Don't hold your breath.

Room temperature, sippin, enjoying. Casamigos Resposato. This is seriously one of the better liquors I've tried in any category, its phenomenal. To chill it would be sacrilege to Tepoztecatl.

Yep. I have a DC return pump. If/when I add a component I just kick the return power up a notch. But, even so, the drain off the return isn't that bad, so you can easily run a reactor or two, or a reactor and scrubber without too much loss on the return, just make sure to have those inline...

Today was hobby supplement day. Refurbed a closet by painting, putting in a new floor, and adding shelving to create a hobby storage space for my wife... and used some left over wood and some other scrap to build a shelf for hobby paints for me (still drying)... Now going to do some D&D...

Excellent basic intro to gluing and working with PVC, lots of good tips... https://www.familyhandyman.com/plumbing/how-to-glue-and-join-pvc-plastic-pipe/ And you might want to consider putting a few of these in the pvc lines...

Did I put a pic in this month? Thought I did. If not, lemme know and I will.