Apex or Red Sea?

[Robbrood]

Been out for a while but getting ready to set up up a 200-ish gallon system. With no budgetary concerns, which is the better system?

 

[reefing102]

I’ve only run apex and I like it. Fairly user friendly. I’m not familiar with any Red Sea controller

 

[griss]

I bought a used Apex Jr from someone on here. It was my first “modern” controller and do not regret it at all. In fact, I’ve gotten several modules to add to it.

 

[wvned]

Hydros is another option now

 

[dadnjesse]

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[phenom5]

My 155g runs entirely through an Apex. Love the capabilities of it. Full disclosure, I'm a Cloud Engineer so I don't have any issue with the programming aspect. Not terribly hard, but not always intuitive.

That said, I'm going to move towards running lights and wavemakers using their built-in software, and return/ heater/ dosing pumps/ ATO on the Apex (skimmer is TBD). The one downfall I don't love is having a single point of failure,