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10-30-2006, 05:23 PM
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It is easy to get carried away, but I guess that is personal preference.
For example you said your heater runs on it's own thermostat... well how many people have had those fail and cook or freeze their tank? Atleast combined with a controller, it will shut it off, or vice versa. (and alarm if your temp is out of whack) 
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10-30-2006, 06:30 PM
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I have the reefkeeper 2 and does everything I want at a affordable price www.digitalaquatics.com
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10-30-2006, 07:53 PM
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Just for my current purposes want to monitor and control pH and since doing that, replace the timers at the same time, can't imagine much more. Just trying to get an idea if units with all the functions are really used or just nice to have (and get an argument ready for the wife if I buy myself a Xmas present)
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10-31-2006, 02:02 AM
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I have recently set up my tank with an Aquatronica controller. Like you I do not have a huge range of paramaters that I want to control or monitor, but I like the fact that it is fully expandable in the future. I am monitoring PH on the tank and the CA reactor effluent, controlling the CA reactor ph, monitoring and controlling temperature, monitoring the sump water level and operating all timing functions with it.
I must say, that since getting this thing, my tank seems way easier to keep consistent since there is one single unit that runs everthing instead of a bunch of different equipment that were overlapping controls or operating under manual control. And, its all done automatically. Best of all, I only had to change one time setting this weekend instead of five 
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