Trident FAQ

[Thales]

We have all seen the 3d printed model with three bottles in it. All I was saying is that I have never seen it actually do the testing its supposed to do.

Here ya go

 

[Dr. Reef]

There is nothing to show on how it works.
It draws water from tank and mixes reagents and gives you results on apex fusion.
All the stuff its doing is hidden/enclosed in the trident body so there is nothing really to see.

 

[Thales]

This was advertised by authorized dealers of their products. Dealers are responsible for communicating with end users in a distributor business model.

I don't know what you want. You want Marine Depot to make an announcement about what? Their website says 'coming soon'. What do you want them to say about a product in development? By getting the 2016 Apex, you are still getting ready for the Trident.

 

[Thales]

Have you heard of Theranos? (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theranos). This was created nextdoor to Neptune HQ.

I don't understand. People lived next door to Jeffrey Dahmer, but that doesn't mean that they kill and eat people.

 

[MnFish1]

I don't understand. People lived next door to Jeffrey Dahmer, but that doesn't mean that they kill and eat people.

(we hope)

 

[iReefer12]

My latest experience with the Trident:

I just selected to do a combined test, I then went up to my kitchen, poured a glass of milk, pulled out the cookies, dipped the old cookies in the milk, ate them one by one, then I checked my phone and read out Alk/Ca/Mg. It was quite a lovely experience all in all. [emoji106]

 

[stacksoner]

I don't understand. People lived next door to Jeffrey Dahmer, but that doesn't mean that they kill and eat people.

Not sure what part of the country you're from, but "fake it till ya' make it" is how Silicon Valley gets funding, drives demand, and eventually can make their illusions into reality. This type of BS doesn't fly in most other parts of the country

Please PM me if you want to further discuss this subject.

http://fortune.com/silicon-valley-startups-fraud-venture-capital/

 

[User1]

I don't understand. People lived next door to Jeffrey Dahmer, but that doesn't mean that they kill and eat people.

This made me giggle. :)

 

[Velcro]

$45 every two months is honestly more than I want to spend on this. Can you select less frequent testing to make the reagent last longer? Can you only do alkalinity, or alk and calcium testing? Can you buy the reagents separately?

 

[xilni]

$45 every two months is honestly more than I want to spend on this. Can you select less frequent testing to make the reagent last longer? Can you only do alkalinity, or alk and calcium testing? Can you buy the reagents separately?

Yes they’ve said you can reduce the testing to at least twice as long by cutting the testing frequency in half, don’t know how far you can stretch it further as there are reagent expiration concerns once open.

 

[User1]

Not sure what part of the country you're from, but "fake it till ya' make it" is how Silicon Valley gets funding, drives demand, and eventually can make their illusions into reality. This type of crap doesn't fly in most other parts of the country

Please PM me if you want to further discuss this subject.

http://fortune.com/silicon-valley-startups-fraud-venture-capital/

His day job takes him in and around the area. He is very well versed in everything Northern California both good, bad, and, well, just flat out crazy town.

I'm not sure what you are trying to say thought to be honest because this has nothing to do with silicon valley. I've seen things built in a garage, taking to a major company and placed on the various exec's desk and seen them only to say no. Engineers pack up their goods, lave the company the next day, and start a new company. I've seen this with NCR, IBM, and a few startups that splintered.

 

[Thales]

Not sure what part of the country you're from, but "fake it till ya' make it" is how Silicon Valley gets funding, drives demand, and eventually can make their illusions into reality. This type of crap doesn't fly in most other parts of the country

Please PM me if you want to further discuss this subject.

http://fortune.com/silicon-valley-startups-fraud-venture-capital/

How bizarre you are, comparing an aquarium company to VC just because of location. And rigggghhhhhttttt, fake it till you make it doesn’t fly in other parts of the country. Lol. I don’t want to be discussing this at all, never mid in PM.

 

[Dr. Reef]

From what I understand no
It's a set of 3 reagents for $40-45 every 2 months.
That is if you use trident default settings of 4 alk per day and 2 cal and 2 mag per day. That's the units bare minimum, you can use more and do more tests per day but least is 4,2,2.

 

[Velcro]

Yes they’ve said you can reduce the testing to at least twice as long by cutting the testing frequency in half, don’t know how far you can stretch it further as there are reagent expiration concerns once open.

Thanks. I'm sure this is somewhere in this thread but... i'm lazy.

 

[Velcro]

From what I understand no
It's a set of 3 reagents for $40-45 every 2 months.
That is if you use trident default settings of 4 alk per day and 2 cal and 2 mag per day. That's the units bare minimum, you can use more and do more tests per day but least is 4,2,2.

If that's true I'm probably going to go a different direction. The only reason it would be restricted to a minimum number of tests a day is greed.

 

[User1]

If that's true I'm probably going to go a different direction. The only reason it would be restricted to a minimum number of tests a day is greed.

Don't look at the negative in it, try and find the good. It could be the regents life cycle. It could be the possibility of clogging the line. I really don't know - maybe they didn't look at the aspect of testing less frequency since it could be thought of for power reefers. Some test daily, some test multiple. I think it was O2manyfish that ran a lot of tests over 24 hours and saw some rather interesting statistics after looking at the results. In any case I would wait to hear what the settings are and go from there.

Remember, this is one of the challenges they have to overcome. They lay out their user stories on how they believe people will use it then along comes Johnny and completely mucks it up by using it another. Then they go....duh. It happens - so let us just see how it goes.

 

[Velcro]

Don't look at the negative in it, try and find the good. It could be the regents life cycle. It could be the possibility of clogging the line. I really don't know - maybe they didn't look at the aspect of testing less frequency since it could be thought of for power reefers. Some test daily, some test multiple. I think it was O2manyfish that ran a lot of tests over 24 hours and saw some rather interesting statistics after looking at the results. In any case I would wait to hear what the settings are and go from there.

Remember, this is one of the challenges they have to overcome. They lay out their user stories on how they believe people will use it then along comes Johnny and completely mucks it up by using it another. Then they go....duh. It happens - so let us just see how it goes.

If the reagent comes in a solution form then there's no reason it should magically expire 60 days after hooked up to the machine.

 

[Thales]

If that's true I'm probably going to go a different direction. The only reason it would be restricted to a minimum number of tests a day is greed.

There is a really good reason for it, but I am not sure if I can say what it is. Sorry bout that.

 

[Dr. Reef]

4,2,2 is minimal what I heard today at Neptune booth.
I am sure it's part marketing and part shelf life of reagents a d ir other technical things like drying of reagents or clearing the lines etc

 

[iReefer12]

I believe if I’m not mistaken it’s to keep the lines clear and primed.

$22.50 a month to have auto tests running with zero work is really not that bad in this hobby. It can easily catch a CaRX issue, in fact it’s already saved me with mine, as CaRX Co2 input jammed closed and noticed Alk dropping like a stone, found the problem, perhaps wouldn’t have found it for a couple of days without the Trident.

(To some people on this thread.) - You don’t have to like the Trident, just don’t try to convince others not to like it based on your opinion and with no hands on experience. My $0.02