Are seneye home/reef worth it?

[Dunnman39]

I was looking at the seneye home/reef devices and was looking for some reviews on them. Are they worth it? What exactly do they do?

 

[Joeganja]

I remember when they first came out. They were overseas. UK I think. The reef one tests free ammonia, ph and temperature, water level, lux, par, kelvin. Like I said fairly new to the U.S. market so you'll have very fewer reviews on them then other controllers. Also would like to add that's all you can test and do with them they aren't modular but you can connect them to your smart phone and such. Since it's a first gen you can't test for nitrate and nitrite. And most mature reef tanks don't even bother testing for ammonia. So your basically down to ph and temperature. You have to change the ph pad or whatever it is once every 30 days and a new one is $10. So $10 a month on top of the $200 you have to spend to buy it. If you want it to connect to wifi you have to buy the wifi connection for it too that's expensive too. I guess you can say they originally made it for ponds and freshwater, so they added a couple of more features and made it for saltwater too.

 

[Joeganja]

Throw $300 more and get a Neptunes aquatics apex. I still have yet to get one but those who have them love them.

 

[Kungpaoshizi]

Seneye is ok, but after time you're not going to want to pay a subscription fee for the slides, so you're left with a temp/par meter. It's also not a quantum meter, so it's based off the lux measurement iirc, so range of error is greater.

There's a new one at brs atm, for 195$, a usb powered quantum apogee. Probably the next best thing in price since the others are all jacked up in price.