I'm glad the pool shock worked!
Me too. Was a bit hillarious to walk through the mostly barren cleaning products section, turn the corner to the outdoor area where they store all the pool stuff to see pallets of liquid pool shock sitting there.
Last night i rinsed each rock for a minute or two in the sink and then put them back in to sit overnight in a 10x dose of prime. Smelled strongly of chlorine still this morning so I put another 10x of prime in and mixed the water around. See how it smells tonight. Wondering if dropping a heater in the barrel would help the prime do a better/faster job or permeate the rock better, I know chlorine evaporates faster when the solution it is in is warmer, but from 60 degrees to 80 degrees and at low concentration this effect may be negligible.
Sump is done. I did the silicone quick and dirty so its not as pretty as I would normally like to leave it. Thinking this will be a short term sump anyways and likely go to a custom acrylic setup some time in the future once I know what kind of equipment is working for me and what is not necessary or helpful. For example, I never liked the refugium in sump when I used it before, so instead I want to make it easy to add in a self contained algae reactor or turf scrubber of some sort.
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