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tds going in is 500+ (varies from about 520 to 570) - last reading was 560 tds after the 3 stage prefilter was 551 tds after the RO membrane was 42 tds after the DI membrane was 2

find a brick or piece of slate and epoxy the heater to it, then it wont go sinking in the sand, and if it does, well, no harm anway alternaly, you can build some substrate heating cables which will be custom to your tanks dimenisons http://www.thekrib.com/Plants/Tech/Resler-Cables/

hmm maybe that's why my mollies have stopped spawning water here according to my TDS meter has 2x as much junk as it does at my folks across town soon as the water guy gets back from vacation, I'm gonna start asking him WTF is in my water that reverse osmosis cannot remove

use a 2 part epoxy for the best hold if you want to experiment with positioning first, use some silicone, then you can scrape it off and start over use a drywall knife or one of those big box cutters, something that will let you get a good score into the plastic

cut the eggcrate by scoring a deep line and then snaping it all plastic will yellow exposed to the radiation put off that close to an MH bulb - go for glass and clean it regularly 1/11th of an inch? never heard of that - perhaps 1/8th but that would not be good enough for a stong baffle -...

how many gallons we talkin? they make nano heaters that work for 3 to 5 gallons

updated diagram things changed: 1) reduced wattage of MH from 400 to 250 2) moved the t5's around a bit to make room for 2 more tubes as a low expense upgrade path 3) changed color temp of MH and T5 bulbs, so they'll be about the same, nice a blue :)

8" sounds great for the MH get the PC's as close as you can, since they don't penerate very well and they're not very hot, so a little splash shouldn't hurt