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11-14-2010, 09:49 PM
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Oh Yes! It's not the first day that bothers me.. It's that first night that gives me jitterz. All that new water being pushed around by all those new pumps all hooked together with new plumbing, and I'm sleeping???? Muhahaha
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11-17-2010, 03:02 PM
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It freaked me out as well. I was more worried about leaving the RODI running overnight and overflowing the tank. I knew it was impossible as it's only a 75 gpd unit but still, I didn't sleep for two days...
I didn't worry too much about the tank breaking, I'm kind of an optimist in that regard. Hey the tank broke, cool! I get new carpet, new dry wall, new TV... 
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11-17-2010, 03:28 PM
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I wonder if anyone's ever gotten a faulty membrane that somehow let their tank fill much faster than expected?
I had jitters with the 225 a bit. Because it's black silicone you can see the seams turn a bit white with the pulling in some spots and that really freaks me out. I would inspect those spots all the time but no issues. Now the 400 that I had started to build was a different story. My stand made all sorts of creaking sounds as I did the freshwater test and I was pretty damn scared.
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11-17-2010, 03:28 PM
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11-17-2010, 03:53 PM
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I'm a week or so away too and I'm already freaking out about filling it up too.
Brett, if my stand made creaking sounds, I might have a panic attack.
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11-17-2010, 04:20 PM
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My tank stresses me out most days I look at it. Probably because it's never the way I want it to be since I am rarely home to work on it. But ya, that first fill...that's a real stresser!
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11-17-2010, 04:24 PM
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Funny, I never thought about it. When I got my first big tank, I just filled it. Call it inexperience, but I didn't even think about it bursting or leaking. In future with the more experience I have, I wouldn't do that again. So I probably would freak a bit, on any future fills.
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11-17-2010, 04:32 PM
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I've decided to wait until after I get back from vacation to fill it. Don't want to leave my GF with a 180g of water that may or may not explode. No, that would not be a good thing to come home to
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11-17-2010, 04:22 PM
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Yeah that stand was insanely overbuilt but you still hear the thing settle with all that weight on it. Dead level etc but still made a few noises.
The following horror in that saga was when I realized I had tiled the wall the tank was in a little too close to the front pane. It did have some bowing and I couldn't slide a piece of paper between the tile ledge in the front and the pane. I drained it immediately and ripped those tiles off intending to lay new ones further away from the front.
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