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I'm looking into getting this. Does anyone on here have one? How do you have it set up? My tank sits in front of a staircase, with basement stairs below, so plumbing through the wall is out of the question. So I'm thinking some sort of vertical cabinet next to the aquarium to hide the 3 reservoirs needed. I don't have any more room under my tank for any more equipment, and it would be a royal PITA to refill new water and remove the dirty water. It's a 90g reef setup.
 

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Hi
my experience of 4 months of use:
I used it for for AWC 1.5 to 2 liter change daily (only used manual option) +ATO
It s compact and ideal for a small set up - i have a red sea reefer 170
unfortunately i had to change the controller x 2 and the water pumps that suddenly stops working. The SW reservoir was about 2 meters away at the same height of the sump. I was lucky as my LFS was very supportive and had the pumps + controlled couriered from the supplier a number of times.
But i know some others who have not had any problems. sensors work as said but remember to clean them regularly. The controller keeps a track of previous ( average) of time taken to refill the tank and for any reason if the refill takes longer than the average it will stop and a alarm will sound.
Now I am using the ecotech versa and the has kept the Smart ATO as a back up
Check if there are reviews on amazon
 
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Hi
my experience of 4 months of use:
I used it for for AWC 1.5 to 2 liter change daily (only used manual option) +ATO
It s compact and ideal for a small set up - i have a red sea reefer 170
unfortunately i had to change the controller x 2 and the water pumps that suddenly stops working. The SW reservoir was about 2 meters away at the same height of the sump. I was lucky as my LFS was very supportive and had the pumps + controlled couriered from the supplier a number of times.
But i know some others who have not had any problems. sensors work as said but remember to clean them regularly. The controller keeps a track of previous ( average) of time taken to refill the tank and for any reason if the refill takes longer than the average it will stop and a alarm will sound.
Now I am using the ecotech versa and the has kept the Smart ATO as a back up
Check if there are reviews on amazon
Thank you for that!
 

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I’m using one right now on automatic mode. No problems so far. Just make sure to not shut it off during feeding time if you have it plugged into a controller because the ato function sets itself to “off” when power comes back on.
 

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