I know I'm late to the party, but I wanted to join in! The sparkles are real; it's a beautiful plant. Mine grew wonderfully for a year. Unfortunately I accidentally beheaded it while moving cross country. Trying to salvage it and propogate a few leaves, but I'm not having much luck :( but so everyone knows it truly is naturally sparkly! Mine continued to grow many new sparkly leaves. This pic is from the day I got it, it grew 7-8" tall before I decapitated it. I have a couple leaves left I'm trying to save. Blah!

Maybe I need to back up a bit - I was thinking you'd had your eye on a particular system and just wanted to get away from the small CO2 tanks they use. The best water in my opinion is Reverse Osmosis water - so I use a large commercial unit in my utility room that's piped up to my kitchen separately - that can feed the fridge at some point, but for me it serves a countertop dispenser for now. You could also do an under-sink RO unit as your base. Then it would need to go into one of these system - like Grohe's or Seltazap listed above or something like that, up to a tap likely in your kitchen sink it sounds like. Some of these systems have internal filters (as does my countertop unit) - I just leave those alone but basically never have to change them. For your fridge, you don't have to rely on just the filter inside - depending on your kitchen layout, you could possibly tap it into the same RO system that feeds your tap, or if there's no way to get a water line between, I've also put much higher quality filtration systems into my fridge before by using a 3-cartridge unit mounted on the wall behind the fridge that then runs into the fridge itself - this will do way more than the small internal filter can do and can get rid of far more contaminants. Now where my comment about the SodaStream adapter comes in - most of these carbonation systems use some sort of CO2 canister obviously - they'll either have an external connection to any size tank you want, or they'll be designed specifically for the sodastream bottles (regardless of how they're labeled, they're all the same). Plenty of SodaStream users grew frustrated with these little cartridges and came up with adapters that'll go from the little bottle hookup to an adapter that'll hook to any size tank. It's not an option on mine because it's a countertop unit and leaving the door open to run a hose to the tank would look bad - but under a counter, it wouldn't make any difference.

I was wary of the sparkles but i dont even notice anymore. They are not that obvious imo.

Thanks all. I priced the corian and it cost more than quartz or marble!!!! When I asked how could rhat be,, the fabricator told me that they no longer sell it, but he could source it for me, but due to low demand, I would have to buy an entire slab of it for the price of $3,200. Real thassos marble would have only cost me $1,400! i ended ip just getting the quatrz replaced . Tried to find the slab with the least black imperfections, but they still have them . Would never buy quartz again. Burns me up that I paid for it. feels like the feeling you get after paying for a lousy meal at a restaurant. 😡