After reading through the posts, I was thinking something similar. I did have one but it got fried when my tank overflowed - and yes...I had drip lines setup on all the cords. They didn't help with Niagara Falls happening. Basically, one accident and all that money goes up in smoke. I will agree with the OP that some tank issues are more frustrating to deal with than others...especially when they happen on Christmas Day when things are usually hectic anyway. I hope all will be figured out soon.I’m sort of confused at some of the comments here. Is an Apex system an aquarium controller or a aquarium alarm system? I thought the whole Point of it is to control the tank. If you can’t rely on it to control the tank Because the failures that happen, then you just stated that you have a high tech ph and temperature alarm. Now on top of that you (might) possibly need 2 of them in case of failure. So now you have $1400 in ph/salinity/temperature tester/alarm. You could (control) things from anywhere in the world, but you shouldn’t have everything connected to it because it could fail. The amount of failures to the Apex systems just keep mounting to what I see. So what do you connect to it? Wave makers? I’m kind of with the OP on this whole situation. I hope he gets the issues figured out.