I was recently at my local LFS for a quarterly club meetup and the presenter was really confident that Apex was by and far the best aquarium controller and other controllers just were still to far off to really be even considered competition at this point. I've seen this view expressed elsewhere as well. As a fairly new Hydros owner myself I wanted to see what you guys think it's missing that really hurts the functionality? Trident testing is an obvious one but what other things would CoralVue need to do to change this and is it even a true sentiment to begin with or just people that like what they know? Hell even BRS seems to push the Apex in every video with the controllers displayed lovingly in the background of 90% of their videos without a poor hydros in sight (though I am will to chalk this up to them just using what they already have setup)
Anyone who made the switch between the two (or really any other controller) willing to chime in?
As I am typing this I also have an ad for an Apex EL flashing on top of the forum, they know we are talking about them
It is a personal preference. A choice. Onus is on the hobbyist to decide what works best for their installation. Any hobbyist who says otherwise is providing their opinion.