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So, I'm planning out a new 90g build, and beginning to stock up on gear. I'm new to the controller side of the hobby, so I've done a ton of research and video watching of course, and have settled on definitely using an Apex on my build. It seems that many people tout the ability of the Apex to control temp/heaters very accurately, but then I see a ton of people suggesting to use separate heater controllers and only use the Apex as backup. I understand the constant cycling of the outlet(s) could cause issues, but then couldn't this be handled with a separate EB4 either from the start, or if/when the outlet eventually failed? I feel like I'm actually losing the true control of the Apex if I'm using an additional controller in between. I'm going to use a primary and secondary heater, so would either need 2 $60 Inkbirds for independent control (same cost as an EB4), or 1 Inkbird and then the secondary heater into the EB832 for backup only. Am I missing some advantage of the separate heater controllers?