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Neptune Systems Apex TRIDENT (Alk, Cal, Mag) Monitoring Device

$674.99
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CT-NS-TRIDENT
Product Code:
7924
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Neptune Systems Apex TRIDENT (Alk, Cal, Mag) Monitoring Device

The Trident is an automated testing system that regularly tests alkalinity, calcium, and magnesium in your saltwater aquarium — and then communicates this information to your Apex so you can get alerts, and change your dosing. When combined with the DOS (available separately) it creates a fully automated system for the proper dosing of supplements, maintaining them at consistent levels.

A key ingredient to a great reef aquarium is maintaining proper levels of Alkalinity, Calcium, and Magnesium.



FINALLY, TOSS ALL THOSE TEST KITS!

Syringes, vials, colors, endpoints, expiration dates — now a thing of the past for Alkalinity, Calcium, and Magnesium. Now, with zero effort, you get up to date values for Alkalinity, Calcium, and Magnesium — anywhere in the world!

HOW IT WORKS

The Trident is a self contained automatic titration colorimeter. That’s quite a mouthful, for sure, so let’s state it as simply as we can. The Trident is basically automating what you (and top scientists) do already when you test your water, that is, perform a color changing titration and interpret the results.

On a scheduled basis the Trident carefully mixes its reagents with a small amount of sample water from your aquarium. While doing this, it is measuring (titrating with a precision peristaltic pump) the amounts of each that are necessary to reach an expected color change (determined by the electronic colorimeter). When it finishes the titration, it sends this sample/reagent fluid to your waste container. It then interprets the results of that test and logs the value into your Apex.

EASY PLUG AND PLAY SET UP

From the box to testing in under 15 minutes! Unlike other testing systems, there are no reagents to mix, tubes to cut, or pumps or probes to calibrate. Simply plug in one cable, two tubes, and run the setup task on the Apex Fusion mobile app — it holds your hand through the installation with helpful videos along the way.

CONSISTENCY AND PRECISION, TEST AFTER TEST

The Trident tests with a precision of +/- 0.05 dKh for Alkalinity and 15ppm for Calcium and Magnesium. This is better than humans can do consistently with every hobby-grade test kit on the market.

UNDERSTAND YOUR AQUARIUM LIKE NEVER BEFORE

When you start getting the regular data coming in from the Trident you will be amazed at the things you can see happening. The daily light cycle swing on calcium carbonate uptake. A salinity drop by watching magnesium. An out of sync dosing of calcium. This increased understanding ultimately helps you maintain a better, more successful reef.

OUT OF RANGE ACTIONS AND ALERTS

You can set up your Apex to alert you, or take immediate action(s) when a parameter falls outside of the safe zone you specify. As just one example, you might be dosing an Alkalinity solution and a misconfiguration could lead to overdosing of your tank. The Trident will catch that, alert you, and give you more time to make that correction before its too late and to save your aquarium. The data from the Trident can also be used to turn on and off other devices (like dosers or solenoids) to protect your tank even more.

AUTOMATIC DOSING CONTROL – ULTIMATE STABILITY

The more stable you maintain proper levels of Alkalinity, Calcium, and Magnesium, the better your corals will grow and thrive. But coral uptake of these supplements often changes and requires us not only to perform more testing, but also seems to put us in a never-ending state of adjusting our dosing levels.

The Trident, when paired up with one or more of our DŌS systems solves this problem with Automatic Dosing Control (ADC)

When configured on the Apex, ADC will take the results it receives from the Trident and use them to gradually turn up or down the amount of additive your DŌS delivers. But, don’t worry, we have built this feature with safety in mind. With ADC you set your target value and your starting dosing amount and ADC will only tune that dosing level +/-35%. If it takes more than that amount of dosing to keep your aquarium at your target value, then the Apex will stop ADC, revert to your starting dosing amount, and alert you that you need to manually adjust your dosing level. Then, ADC can be reenabled and it will continue to guide your DŌS so that it keeps you as close to your target value as possible.

It is possible to use ADC for all three tests – Alkalinity, Calcium, and Magnesium. You can also use one test value to adjust up or down more than one additive delivered by the DŌS (i.e. Triton system).

SIMPLE, INFREQUENT REAGENT CHANGES

When using the default testing schedule of four (4) alkalinity, two (2) calcium, and two (2) magnesium tests a day, the reagent stored inside the Apex will last a full month. And adding new reagent is super simple — just slide out the drawer, remove the old bottle(s), and replace them with new ones. If you desire, you can also run a calibration with the included calibration standard.


INCLUDES:

  • Trident
  • 1Link cable (US/CAN only)
  • 5′ of black sample line tubing
  • 5′ of clear waste line tubing
  • 1-month reagent supply
  • Calibration Fluid
  • Get Started Card

 

PHYSICAL DIMENSIONS:

  • 10″H x 4.25″W x 12”D

 

HIGHLIGHTED FEATURES:

  • Automatically tests seawater for Alkalinity, Calcium, and Magnesium
  • Up to 24 Alkalinity tests per day with +/-.05 dKh precision
  • Up to 12 Calcium tests per day with +/-15 ppm precision
  • Up to 12 Magnesium tests per day with +/-15 ppm precision
  • ~7.9ml sample water used per parameter tested
  • ~7 minutes testing time per parameter tested
  • Up to one month of testing before reagents need changing based on base level testing of 4-Alk, 2-Ca, 2-Mg per day.
  • When combined with DŌS system (available seperately), the data from Trident can be used to automatically raise or lower the amount of additives dosed as necessary to maintain stability at user set point.

 

REQUIRES:

  • Apex or ApexEL (not Apex Classic, Lite, or Jr.)
  • Available 1Link port OR 24v power supply and Aquabus Cable (available separately)
  • External waste container or drain
  • Must be located within 4’ of water source to be tested

 

 

Product code: 7924
Item No. CT-NS-TRIDENT

3 Reviews

  • 5
    Great testing device

    Posted by Douglas on Dec 16th 2022

    So far I love the Trident, very quiet, was easy to setup and has been accurate. Haven’t enabled DOS control yet but that’s another great feature.

  • 5
    good and helpful service

    Posted by darian on Nov 2nd 2019

    got my full neptune apex system from aquacave. items arrived in good condition. staff was very helpful. got the apex trident from them when the whole country was out of stock.

  • 5
    Its really great things ever i have

    Posted by Mohammed on May 23rd 2019

    Its easy and fast and save my time <br>Easy to save the kh and cal and mag <br>All the time one line