Focustronic Alkatronic automated alkalinity tester - 6 week review 

True. Good points. Finding that stable tanks after a few months often can just be viewed and not tested, as long as you are sensitive and diligent to general maintenance. Good job! Thanks.

Very nice review on Alkatronic, great to see the app on the side as well 👍

Thanks for the update Deven! This thing looks like a pretty great testing unit

Much needed video thanks for this!! 👌🏻

Appreciate the info and instructions. These things would be cool if tested regularly for what we need more effiiand more cost effective.

Super sweet!!

Dang! I want one of these!

Had to watch this vid again.

Not seen that before especially in England very nice would help me out a treat with my poorly eyes

The updated apex controller has ph and orp ports. Did you plug the alkatronic into the orp port since ph port is already in use?

such a professional, super comprehensive review :)

Did I hear that right? Some people put the waste water with spent reagent back into the tank?!? that seems like an awful idea. I see hazmat markings on lot of my test kit reagents. Please tell me people aren't tossing reagents into the tank...

What is cost? What is cost of reagents? What is the maintenance requirements? Can you easily move it from one tank to another? What is the warranty? How hard to calibrate, recalibrate?

So you can program Apex based on Alkatronic’s reading to turn on/off calc reactor if something goes strange. It’s not just throwing up a graph to show you the test results?

nice :) like how it connects to the apex :)

Cool 👍

Hello hello sir I'm like your video is super fantastic saltwater aquarium all the time...

Thanks Deven, noticed you have the 3L AquaMaxx dosing containers that’s a lot of Alk and Cal, just curious what your daily dose is like for your tank?

Hi how do I set what time I want the alkatronic to test?

What size tank you upgrading too?? But great video and product Dev

I'm curious how much tank water is sitting in the tube between the tank and the Alkatronic compared to how much water it uses every test? Let's say there's 20ml in the tube and each test uses 20ml of water, then you're really testing the alkalinity of the tank at the time of the last test (when the water was pulled into the tube). I'm just wondering if this effect is significant or if they've thought of some way around this (like does the Alkatronic throw out the first 20ml of water before making a test)?

The Alkatronic doesn't dose, per say. It lane keeps, maintaining the alkalinity between the high and low values you decide. It may seem a mute point , but you still dose as per your normal dosing system (my case via APEX and their DOS units). You can connect the Alkatronic via BNC to the APEX or other controller. Should the alkalinity detected by the Alkatronic drift above the high level you set, you program the Apex to not dose. Should the alkalinity drift below the low point you set, the Alkatronic has a single channel dose pump that doses alkalinity separately to bring the dkh back between the levels you have set. Based on what you have seen either too high a kh dosage or too low a kh dosage, you adjust the dosing system you use (in my case the Apex DOS) Its not strictly dosing, in the traditional way we think of it, its maintaining boundaries. I just had 2 weeks holiday and it did an amazing job when my dkh drifted too low. I was then able to increase the normal dosage via APEX fusion from half way around the world. It is one of the best bits of kit I have bought for my aquarium. Expensive but worth it 10 /10 and amazing customer service too :)

When I win the 60 million on Friday I will definitely be getting one for my 10 000 gallon build 💰 if I only win 1 million I’ll get it for the tanks I have lol. How long would it take to fill that space saver bottle and Is this possibly one of the reasons why your salinity dropped to 1.023?

Are there devices like this that can test: salinity, ph, calcium, magnesium, other elements?

Expensive but thanks. That’s about $100/month first 12 months. Can do ICP for $30-40/month.

Why did you prefer this one, over the KH Director from GHL?

This only test for alkalinity?

Alktronic is cheap knockoff to the KHG. The khg is way smaller, more reliable and cheaper..

Speak slowly and clearly please, thank you.