What equipment upgrade made the most impact on your tank?

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During our time of having tanks, we will sometimes upgrade our equipment to something better. Maybe it is getting better lights, a better doser or maybe a better sump for our tank. I am wondering what equipment did you upgrade made the most impact on your tank. Curious to see what everyone says!
 

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Adding Hydros across my farm system has helps tremendously. Originally installing wave engines (6 wave engines, and 2 WELE) helped me power over 20 icecap/maxspect gyres, multiple octo pulses, and multiple varios 2/4 accessory pumps with WAY less power bricks or pump controllers. Then with Kraken coming along, I have been able to even further reduce power supply clutter by powering all my wave engines off 1 kraken/1 power supply plus have over 24 hours of batter backup for all those pumps. In addition I have been able to run a second Kraken that powers all of my farm's Reef Brite XHO strips, again allowing me to consolidate 10s of power supplys down to 1 kraken supply. The clutter and wiring reduction has helped tremendously.
 

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Oof this is a tough one. From a simplicity perspective the answer is ATO. Apex is probably the other one. Are the alarms annoying? Yes, absolutely, but it's also saved me so much heartache while traveling.
have to agree that an ATO is invaluable.
However, If i had to consider an ATO a necessary part of every reef tank and pick something that substantially improved the function of my system:
1) moving over to LEDs over my T5's. no more burn-in, no noticeable loss in growth and a very noticeable improvement in required maintenance.
2) ditching the gyres in favor of mp40's. gyres make for great flow... but only when they're clean and that falls apart in a week. MP40's flow hard months later.
 
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Oof this is a tough one. From a simplicity perspective the answer is ATO. Apex is probably the other one. Are the alarms annoying? Yes, absolutely, but it's also saved me so much heartache while traveling.
Couldn't agree more with an ATO
 

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Neptune Apex. I have three tanks on it. I use it for monitoring and controlling parameters, voice control actuations (with "Alexa"), and attribute my overall success to using it. I do not always have the time to do things manually, so this keeps my tanks in order along with my routine maintenance.
 

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During our time of having tanks, we will sometimes upgrade our equipment to something better. Maybe it is getting better lights, a better doser or maybe a better sump for our tank. I am wondering what equipment did you upgrade made the most impact on your tank. Curious to see what everyone says!
Proper lighting
 
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Neptune Apex. I have three tanks on it. I use it for monitoring and controlling parameters, voice control actuations (with "Alexa"), and attribute my overall success to using it. I do not always have the time to do things manually, so this keeps my tanks in order along with my routine maintenance.
Never knew you could do voice control with those!
 

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+1for apex Neptune,expensive but could have saved me a fortune preventing a tank crash that happened losing corals and fish that are no longer available in uk
 

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Never knew you could do voice control with those!
Yeah, the Alexa has an app for it. I can start feed cycles, turn on/off things, get tank status, etc. It's handy when feeding the fish and doing maintenance.
 

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