well, there was a mix up with my drum at oceansmotions, apparently Cassie is under the weather and some guy in washington got my drum, and I got his shafts for his 8-way.

Anyway, being the adventursome person I am, I took a new razor blade and smoothed out the rough edges on the damaged drum and put it back in, presto, it works.

In another unexpected happy moment, 2 of the 4 1" omni-flex systems I hadn't gotten around to pay-palling paul came in as well. for reference, these are 1" diameter lock lines.

here is a pic, I threw my refractometer in there as a size reference.



So, the closed loop is on, stirred up some detrius wo the tank got a little cloudy, and it smells a little from the water that went anoxic in the CL when it was off, but everone seems to be doing fine. once the water has cleared up a little bit I will go ahead and screw those puppies in.

progress is slow, but it's coming!