Hello, I am in the middle of a 65 gallon reef build and this will be my 1st "larger" tank, I have already purchased, the tank/stand, a 20 gallon high sump/refugium, a Lifegard Aquatics Quiet One Pro 3000 (rated at 819gph at zero head), a Ecotech Radion LED light, all the plumbing, skimmer, and I'll be running a Herbie overflow.
Anyway, I have researched/ considered getting two Ecotech mp10w es, or one mp40w es, or two Tunze Nanostreams 6055, and I will also end up getting the Tunze Osmolator Universal 3155 Auto Top Off, and a BRS carbon/gfo reactor, a heater, a sump light (sorry trying to list anything that might be "controllable").
I am totally lost at what controller will be the most useful to me. It seems the Radion and Votechs have controllers so would I need another controller such as these Neptunes APEX I'm always hearing about? My tank will be within an ear shot of my bedroom so I am leaning towards getting the Tunze Nanostreams 6055's as I have read a lot about the humming of Votechs and from what I can tell the only communication between a wireless Votech and Radion is a Feed and Nite mode.
What controller will allow me to control the most items and be the most versatile and yet not redundant? If I get one of the Neputunes would that allow me to control the Tunze Nanostreams without me needing to get the Tunze Multicontroller 7096? I would rather spend the extra money to get a versitile controller than buy a seperate controller just for my powerheads then find out that if I want to control other items I need to get yet another controller that makes the one I just bought rundndant/ not needed. Sorry for the long post. Any thoughts or help would be appreciated, would love to hear some..."well if I was building a 65 gallon mixed reef, I would go with X controller, X wavemaker/powerheads/ because...."
Edited by Bryce - October 15 2012 at 10:31pm
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