[KMP]

Witfull has already mentioned Coral Life timers, and I have one, so here's what I learned when researching/since.

There are three Coral Life timers - single, dual, and single ditigal. On all three, the sockets are close together so if you need to plug something up that has the big "box" plug [whatever the heck you call them] then you are going to loose the socket next to it.

I really wanted the dual timer, however, found a couple reviews and none of them were good. So I didn't buy the dual timer and got the single digital timer instead. Due to bad instructions, it took me a week to figure it out [not ever having messed with a timer before - that was most of the problem] and it's working great.

So right now I have 8 sockets on the Coral Life single digital timer. 4 constant, 2 day, and 2 night [which I consider to be constant since they always have power except when the "timed" day lights are on]. The pump and heater are in the constant. The actinic are in the day, and the moon lights are in the night. I have the regular lighting on a separte timer. You could run all this on the Coral Life's dual timer but again, bad reviews.

Since I got the timer, we saw some at the LFS [$70 and you can get them on Dr. Foster and Smith for $33] and were asking about them. They acknowledged the dual timer had issues and say they have since been redesigned and work fine now. Based on that 12gDude [co-worker and new to RS also] ordered one and just set it up this weekend so the press is still out on those.

If you have any other questions, fire away.

Kenny