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Ummm..... Did you read what you wrote? Acid. Do I need gloves? Would you normally play with acid with your bare hands?? Sorry it seems like an obvious safety issue.

Blow in the airline to get it started. They are known to have starting trouble with some pinwheels and mesh mods. If that's it you can change the pinwheel. You'll have slightly less performance but the starting problems go away.

That's a different problem. Once you close the bypass to the restrictor, it will then pressurize and you'll get the spike on the output. Basically, run it normally but dump the product water until your output TDS is down to the normal range. Then turn on the valve to the DI and shut off the valve for dumping the product water.

Even in the low teens, a refill should last for a lot of water. How many gallons have you made on that cartridge? Also, think about adding a bypass for the product water to the drain. It takes some time for the membrane to reach its full performance when it is pressurized. You can see the spike on your TDS meter. It can sometimes take a minute or two to go from the tap TDS down to the normal level. Each time you run this through your DI, it uses up more resin than probably dozens of gallons of water at regular operation. On mine, I have a valve to dump the product water, I turn it on and wait a minute or two, then I turn on the valve to the DI and shut off the bypass. The resin lasts much longer. At my last place, incoming TDS was 800-900 so I started finding tricks like that because I was burning through a lot of resin and it was getting expensive.

That's it! No wonder I couldn't find it again, I was searching for the wrong type of valve. http://www.usplastic.com/catalog/item.aspx?itemid=32220&catid=662

Yes, there is one and I've seen them online. But, I can't find them now either and I'm looking for one too. So, if you find them, please post.

It is NOT a power supply. It provides a logic level circuit only. You need to power your LEDs from something else.

You could consider yourself lucky. A lot of people want the bubbly tentacles over the longer ones. There are lots of theories, but really, its going to do what its going to do. Just make sure it has plenty of light.

Is the stairwell wall a load bearing wall? If it was an exterior wall it sounds like you'd be good to go, but not so sure about the stairwell. I'll second the "anything that's downstairs won't be a total loss if wet" For instance if your big screen tv is right below it- Don't even think of putting the tank there.

We've always gone with new sand and about 50%-70% new water. I'll second the pour new water into a bowl method to keep down the sand.

So where would one look for a fish that was in the sump yesterday and gone today? Looked everywhere- it's a clownfish and it's MIA. Not stuck to a pump, not in the skimmer, hasn't taken a 8"leap into the top off container, can't find it "around" the sump either.

Get a flash light to check the overflows and sump. fish are sneaky- they are almost always in there unless they jumped ship or something ate it.

I think the focus is stopping at the glass and not going through into the tank.

It appears you are having a white balance issue. A custom balance may be in order if your camera can do that.

I've seen one ton pallets of io at the Mall of America's aquarium. It's still small compared to these tanks.