Aquarium controller or individual controllers?

[mark]

believe there has been the odd failure when dropped into a mix barrel of saltwater. Might be stretching the manufacturer fault bit but hey, these are made to be used around aquariums .

(I'm joking here)

[Aqua-Digital]

I was waiting for that

I did say manufacturer error

My biggest advise before buying a controller is go look at the support forums see how many main controller issues are reported and then decide, user feedback is paramount when spending this sort of hard earned cash.

Price is always a factor in everything we buy but a bargain is only a bargain if the product can be relied upon. I am not saying cheap or cheaper means unreliable as even more expensive things in this life can have its troubles too. But price is not a judge on quality whether higher or lower, user feedback and reports on forums etc etc is the best judge in my own oppinion.

So what is best controller or seperates? Well this comes down to personal choice. If lets say you want to only turn a light on and off a day and monitor/control pH and see the tank temp then hell no! A controller is not the way to go what ever the make. But if you for instance want to have level control, ph control, temp control, maybe even tunze control then just that little lot seperately would cost you more than a controller that can do all that in one box. It all comes down to what you want to do and if you feel comfortable having all your eggs in one basket which comes right back to choosing a controller you "personally feel" (irrelavant what the manufacturers claim) you can rely upon.

I appreciate readers will say my oppinions could be biased, but I hope I have come across as neutral as possible.

[lastlight]

Some good discussion here =)

I've read reports of the 4 rollers preventing any siphoning issues and there is much more feedback about the litetmeter out there. I'm still a ways off from buying anything but I'm enjoying hearing everyone's opinion.

I have done a lot of reading and besides the water on controller issue I haven't read about total profilux failures. As an example the AC3 have temp probe issues. Think that was mentioned here but I read about issues such as that one many times. I tend to believe what I read over and over.

[Aqua-Digital]

IMO any amount of rollers will not stop syphoning.

I am not going to say anymore about the GHL doser on this thread in regards to whether you should choose it over another, as I am staying neutral but please do your research in the "relevant" places and I think you will be very impressed But if you are going down the profiLux route as you have intermated then the GHL doser would be a natural addition if you are looking for a doser. No matter what controller you go for there is no point having a doser you cant control by your funky new controller.

However if you are not going down the controller route then you need to look for a doser with built in controller that can be expanded on easily, oops that will be the GHL then

Ok before I hear shouts of "hijack" Im outta here