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  1. Round two...

    1) Drain water
    2) Wash sand (hope it's enough)
    3) Add RO water
    4) Start adding salt
    5) Check water and wonder why the salinity is sooooo high??? (Did they give me mixed water at the store? -I need to get my RO/DI unit set up.)
    6) Water looks better, now we'll see how it does in the morning.
    7) 9pm and I'm heading home...
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  2. New Toy

    How about this for a Reefer B@ner! I hope it fits in the Sump. May be giving Melev a call...
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    Updated 02-05-2010 at 12:40 AM by melev

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  3. Killer snails offer pain relief drug

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    From AAP:
    The snails have a cocktail of powerful agents in their venom, which they use to immobilise their prey, explains Professor David Adams who is director of the Health Innovations Research Institute at Melbourne's RMIT.

    Research is under way to isolate those agents - peptides - which, he said, could be used safely to treat pain in humans as a less problematic alternative to morphine.

    "In some of the old medical reports ...

    Updated 02-04-2010 at 07:04 PM by Jessy

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