A Light, A Skimmer, A Return Pump and A Controller: Name your favorite brand!

[Blue Cheese]

Lighting-Neptune sky
Controller-apex
Pump-cor20
Skimmer-reef octopus elite

 

[fish farmer]

Reef Aquarium Lighting: BuildMyLED and ATI T5
Protein Skimmer: Reef Octopus
Water Return Pump: Danner Mag Drive
Aquarium Controller: Ranco temp controller, JBJ ATO and whatever pin style light timers I have at the moment.

 

[PR_nano]

I would not say all are my favorite but what I’m currently using;

Reef Aquarium Lighting: AI Hydra 26HD
Protein Skimmer: IM Desktop Skimmer*
Water Return Pump: Sicce 1.5
Aquarium Controller: Neptune Apex A2

 

[ReefKeeperElite]

Lights: 2 Radion G3, 2 Radion G4 (awesome)

Protein skimmer: Reef Octopus 3000 (nice skimmer, but an older model with pump outside skimmer, looking to replace with a newer Regal space saver)

Water return pumps: 2 Ecotech Vectra M2 (hate Mobius lack of control when away from home, so looking to replace them for that reason alone)

Controller: Apex (love it)

 

[M Stein]

No skimmer. I hate cleaning them. (it's the smell)
I found that having a lot of coral and few fish eliminates the need for a skimmer.
Six months going strong with no skimmer or water changes.

 

[sergifed91]

I got the lifereef skimmer,
return pump is a jabeo
using the old apex classic controller
lighting is ai prime

 

[Jarry]

Reef Aquarium Lighting: DIY
Protein Skimmer: Tunze
Water Return Pump: Eheim
Powerheads: Tunze
Aquarium Controller: DIY

 

[Thunder_reef]

ATI sunpower
Bubble Magus
Apex core 15
Apex controller

 

[Ruben's Reef]

Reef Aquarium Lighting: Radion XR15 G5 Pro
Protein Skimmer: Reef Octopus 110IN
Water Return Pump: Jebao 6500
Aquarium Controller: Apex

 

[maroun.c]

Reef Aquarium Lighting: Radion
Protein Skimmer: reef octopus
Water Return Pump: Abyzz
Aquarium Controller: Apex

 

[nereefpat]

Lights: Tek 6 bulb T5
Skimmer: ASM G2
Return pump: Blueline

No controller. Lights are on a mechanical light timer. Bucket of kalk and Aqualifter for dosing and topoff runs on a digital light timer.

 

[piranhaman00]

Jebao for everything possible.

6400k T5 in cheap fixture

 

[FourPawz]

Reef Aquarium Lighting: GHL Mitras 7206
Protein Skimmer: Bubble Magus elite
Water Return Pump: Eheim 5000
Aquarium Controller: GHL Profilux 4

 

[Redbeardz]

54 gallon
2 Radion G5 xr30 pros LEDs
1 Kessil H80 blue
Reef octo 150 sss skimmer
EcoTech Vectra S1 return
No controller

210 gallon
4 Radion G5 xr30 blue LEDs
3 kessil 160 Tuna blue LEDs
Reef octo 250 sss skimmer
2 Reef octo Varios 6 returns
Apex controller

 

[rtparty]

Reef Aquarium Lighting: ReefBrite halides and XHO
Protein Skimmer: Reef Octopus Elite (but really want an Ultra Reef)
Water Return Pump: Sicce by a mile. I don't even look to anyone else
Aquarium Controller: Apex. (Tried all 3 and 2 of them suck lol)

 

[mfinn]

I don't have a controller.

My favorite brands are in no particular order
Ecotech Marine.
R E Red Dragon
Phillips CoralCare
Reef Brite
Coralvue Reef Octopus

 

[scardall]

Why Do I need a whole aquarium controller? I have Apps running my lights, I have WAVE maker timers, I have individual monitors. Why should I pay an extra $500+ to have them as ONE? Really?

 

[Susan Edwards]

Reef Aquarium Lighting: 4 RS 160s
Protein Skimmer: RS 900
Water Return Pump: 2 Cor-20s
Aquarium Controller Apex plus apps for all Red Sea except skimmer, app for mp40's

 

[shakacuz]

light: 2x ai hydra 32hd with reef brite kits
skimmer: reef octo classic 110-sss
return: sicce 3.0
controller: me

 

[Red_Beard]

I built my own controller with an arduino. Was going to add all the cool sensors, ph and whatnot, but life/wife/kids. right now it is just an ATO, but it has been rock solid for 3 years now