Okay....if you go to the
German site, then click on the aquastar logo of "Aquarientechnik". Then click on "Basissystem" in the third list of stuff. You should end up
here. Then, look over to the right...you'll see a picture of the system, with a phrase above that says "Null-Euro-Aktion...mehr lesen" - click here. You should end up
here.
So, if you're able to order it within Germany and have someone ship it to you, that's the best. It doesn't work for it to be ordered and shipped outside of Germany. You have to print out the fax "Bestellformular", fill it out and then usually a fish store in Germany will order for you. If you have someone in Germany that can take care of that for you, that's the best. I can suggest a really good, reliable shop that we order a lot of our stuff from and he actually did the same thing with the IKS system for us. We ordered it through him and then he shipped it to us.
So, just in case you don't have anyone to translate the fine print for you, here's the gist of it:
You get the iks system for 4 years without having to buy it. But, you pay a "deposit" of 130€ for the larger system or 105€ for the midi. I think you also pay 26€/year for hot-line support, updates and customer service. After 4 years the system belongs to you, provided they keep the deposit, otherwise you can hand it back to them. You're not obligated to anything. You can give it back to them at any time and get your deposit back.
Hope that helped Carmie! I didn't see that same offer on the US site....