reef keeper lite L1

lol. Maybe I dont want to trust my entire tank on this one then.. Considering both are similarly designed..

 

There are no reliable salinity probes on the market yet so the SL-1 is still the popular choice. What would you do with a salinity reading anyway, rig up a bucket of salt to dump in when its low? Not really a useful measurement to me.

 

You can say the same for ORP: what are you going to do with it anyway, unless you run ozone?

 

ORP measurement has other uses besides ozone. It can be a good tool.
ORP and the Reef Aquarium by Randy Holmes-Farley - Reefkeeping.com

 

"One of these is to use ORP as an "alarm" to alert the aquarist that something undesirable might be happening in the aquarium. Specifically, if something large died in the tank, and especially if it is out of sight, it might be useful for the aquarist to be alerted to the condition before water quality degrades to the point of killing other organisms. In this case, one would look for a significant decrease in ORP that was not resolving itself in a few hours."

"One can also monitor the effects of more mundane events, such as feeding. Usually these effects are small and quickly disappear."

Those are the only two examples listed in the article that are proven (the last being coral spawning events).

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say "keep your $60 ORP probe + supporting electronics and pass on the savings".

 

Still undecided...persuade me people. lol

I think I will go with the AC Jr(that's the plan for now at least), as it seems to have more practical functions & is more "user-friendly".

The fact that it can be linked/controlled wirelessly is of no matter to me, when deciding upon controllers that is, as I know of an open open source program that will work for the AC Jr.