Carlo died? That's horrible. He was such a nice guy.

The permaquartz stuff is supposedly the same, however the nearest distributor is in NJ or something like that.
http://www.permacolorquartz.com/pool.html

To be fair they do suck on everything in those early stages. Congrats!

I think there's a mobile version too. The guy, Carlo, who created it is usually an AGA attendee so I was bummed not to see him there.

I use and trust this calculator. http://calc.petalphile.com/

Eugen has also done some really awesome stuff with LEDs, but he's about to have or perhaps just did have his first kid.

Indeed, you guys all deserve some R and R.

I just use an old piece of tubing.

Buckets are the way to go for deep cleans. I flush it down the toilet rather than put it down the smaller sink drain. Also, like Kris said, the oops factor comes into play.

I'm with Kris and Jim. I'd like to go back to the old free-for-all with beginner and advanced categories.