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So im wanting to get a tank with some beginner soft corals like mushroom, xenia, and frogspawn. This is my first sw tank. I'm looking at the apex controller because it seems to be the king of the market. It's a 40 gallon aquarium and I may eventually want to add some more difficult corals, depending on how i progress. I'll need to get an ato since I leave home often for 2 days or so a week to go skiing. My problem is I don't wanna come home to see that my ato was stock in the "on" position and i have 20g of water on the floor. This is why I want an aquarium controller mainly. I ofc would also use it to check whatever probes it comes with eg salinity, temp, ph. Whatever it comes with by default. I would also use it to control lights and such. Maybe auto dosing if I ended up getting some corals or such that required dosing, although I plan to use reef crystals. So anyway I'm wondering what package I should get, what some cheaper alternatives are in case i can't fit an apex in my budget, how the apex would prevent the ato from topping off my floor, and if an apex jr or such may work