Aquatronica vs. Profilux vs. Aquacontroller III

[mseepman]

If you are looking in that mid-range, you might want to explore the new Reefkeeper Elite that is coming out shortly. Appears to be good value with great expandability. Price is good too. People seem very happy with the RK2 except for maybe the amount of amps the Powerbar takes. I think they bumped it on the RK Elite.

Just a thought though as I don't have one to test out.

[fkshiu]

Anybody looking at a controller must have a look at this site and "The Chart":

http://www.aquariumcontrollers.com/

RobbyG, a regular RC poster and a bit of a controller nutter it seems, somehow put this together on his own free time.

[Tom R]

I do not know the pros and cons of each of the controllers. I did not do a lot of research when deciding on the ProfiLux. I have 4 friends that have purchased ProfiLux and are very happy with it. I have 1 friend that has an Aquatronica and he is very happy with it.

I got my ProfiLux Plus II Controller for Christmas and it is fantastic. I did not buy their package, I had them build it exactly to my specs (this saves money by not paying for modules that I would not use). You can always add them at a later date. I wanted 2 x PH, 1 x temp and 2 x power bars. I also used Aqua-Digitals $19 PH probes rater than the $80 ProfilLux probes (they work just fine). I was able to sell my Medusa temp. controller, my PH controller and if I attach my Tunze's I will be able to sell the Tunze controllers. My net cost without the frills is about $300. This will increase as time goes on as I see more and more uses to completely automate the day to day control and care of my tanks. Things such as automatic water change.

I know that ProfiLux looks expensive but do you really need control of Salinity, Redox, Humidity, Oxygen or Air Temperature. If you do you can add them later.

ProfiLux just had an introductory offer of $499 that would have got you up and running with about 80% of your tank controlled
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