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I dunno how cost is compared to others, but I'm happy with mine that I have. Tidalzone should be able to get it.

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Looks good. Love the pic with the clown.

Beer time should be way over by now. heh Great thread.

Ya, the mandrin is real small. The clown is pretty cool but he doesnt like my Strawberry Dotty much. Really runs him off. Actually the clown sorta defends my little sixline. heh

Ya IS is nice. I'm not sure if I'm going to do the 50-500 or get the 100-400 and get IS that way. I sure like it on the 75-300 though.

Good luck with the camera. I just returned my XT and have the XTI on order. Should be here soon. I have a 75-300 IS lens that I'm thinking of parting with and getting a Sigma 50-500 lens. Anyhow have fun.

[language filter]. Ok well maybe this weekend unless your busy.

Alright, well next time you have one to get rid of that you know is eating asp, I want it.

Well, here is three of mine. I have more but I'm waiting on my new camera to get here.

23tds tapwater is real good. I'm not sure what medford city water is but my well is about 300tds. We have a whole house nano filtration on my dads house/well. Its output is around that.

Thats fine, I was just saying what the post filter does sometimes. Just depends I guess is what I was trying to get at. If your not having issues and your tds is in check, dont worry bout it. I know my 0 tds RO/DI and the Distilled water made my refract meter show the same number.

It can be depending on the quality of your RO/DI water being created. More importantly the performance of the DI filter itself. The DI filter "should" remove 100% of the contaminents left at the correct flow rate of the unit. Find yourself a water treatment company and have them test your TDS from your RO/DI. Id actually do it after the RO and then after the DI so you can see how each is performing. Otherwise buying a decent quality TDS meter is fairly cheap.

Ya, Ive gotten two pepermints in the past that dont eat asp at all. My moms poor nano is getting overrun with them. If anyone finds a good place to get them and they are the right ones, I wanna get one also.

RO usually wont do 0 TDS unless your water is made up with easily rejected minerals etc etc. Most the time you will end up with 3-10 TDS and depending on whats making that up could effect the Refract meter. The post DI cartridge should remove the rest, but dont count on it. Some of the hobby ones seem to be of low quality IME. Even some of the cheap commercial ones I have are borderline (just not regenerated correctly I believe in the media.) Distilled would probably be the best choice if you wanna be 100% or as close to 100% accurate. RO/DI is fine as long as the water is actually 0TDS. Thats why I dont use carbon on my postfilters from an RO. They tend to leach phosphates back into the water and raise the TDS. Then your DI filter just has that much more to take out and doesnt last as long. I have a chart that shows all the different things at thier givin rejection rates if anyone is interested. Just gotta get a copy onto the PC.

oops, misunderstood the question. lol

Got some of mine up...Sorry kinda jsut starting so most everything is pretty small. http://www.showmytank.com/showgallery.php?cat=500&ppuser=36

You just cant help but laugh at this one. http://sasisa.ru/2006/09/07/video_dnya__takoe_razvlechenie_oni_zapomnyat_na_vsyu_zhizn_.html

You have pretty much three choices down here that I know of. Tidalzone, Seascapes, NuiKai. And in that order is how I would shop. Just IMO.

I had about 2lbs per gallon on my 75 gallon and it was pretty darn full of rock. Didnt keep track on my current 90 but its prob at about 1.25 per gallon right now.

Drop a line to Tidalzone, he is a sponsor here and also local to us.

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Not a bad idea. When I did my 300 gallon on the second floor I was somewhat worried. But got to doing some measuring and it ended up being right over a wall right below. (Actually a small closet so ahve 4 walls.) I dunno if I'd want to put a large tank in the middle of a floor.

I just use the 44gallon cans also with no issues yet. I do though have a 300 gallon vertical storage tank with RO water that doubles as spot free car wash water.