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@Ulm_nano_diybudgetreef I like the sound of a steady drip solution.
I guess part of what I'm hedging over is that at least from afar and prior to any experience with them, I have to say I really dislike the ATO solutions out there, and spending two hundred bucks for them, blech. They're putting backups on the backups, and it just seems nuts. Not remembering to turn it off if you're going to change the water level for any reason (pull a rock out, etc.). It's just.... my head hurts.
That's my engineering opinion. Everything else I've seen in the reefing hobby is pretty great and amazingly clever at times. But these ATO devices make me frown.
I can relate to something that is dripping in... despite whatever problems that solution would obviously have.
I realize what people are gonna say... how they've come a long ways, have all these various features, the Tunzi is great, etc. I get it. I'm sure I'm at least partly being a curmudgeon. But it's my basic reaction to these gizmos.
I guess part of what I'm hedging over is that at least from afar and prior to any experience with them, I have to say I really dislike the ATO solutions out there, and spending two hundred bucks for them, blech. They're putting backups on the backups, and it just seems nuts. Not remembering to turn it off if you're going to change the water level for any reason (pull a rock out, etc.). It's just.... my head hurts.
That's my engineering opinion. Everything else I've seen in the reefing hobby is pretty great and amazingly clever at times. But these ATO devices make me frown.
I can relate to something that is dripping in... despite whatever problems that solution would obviously have.
I realize what people are gonna say... how they've come a long ways, have all these various features, the Tunzi is great, etc. I get it. I'm sure I'm at least partly being a curmudgeon. But it's my basic reaction to these gizmos.
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