125 Gallon Tank Lighting - What do you use?

[RayAllen3422]

I am purchasing a 125 Gallon Tank. The dimensions are 72x18x22. I was looking at using 3 - EcoTech Marine Radion XR15w Pro LED. This was recommended by my LFS. I see the Kessil A360 are on sale today. What do you all use? What would you recommend?

 

[lmforbis]

I have 2 kessil 160s and 2 36" two bulb HOt5 fixtures with actinic bulbs on my 125. Ideally I would have liked to have gotten 3 or 4 A360s but it was just too much to spend at the time. I only have LPS and some zoas so it is plenty of light. I also use the kessil spectral controller and absolutely love it.

 

[RayAllen3422]

I have 2 kessil 160s and 2 36" two bulb HOt5 fixtures with actinic bulbs on my 125. Ideally I would have liked to have gotten 3 or 4 A360s but it was just too much to spend at the time. I only have LPS and some zoas so it is plenty of light. I also use the kessil spectral controller and absolutely love it.

Yeah - I think 3 Kessils would be the way to go. My LFS says the Radions outperform the Kessil so I am torn.

 

[Sk8r]

I'm really pleased with the Radion Pro---and while I don't know the Kessil rig, I can say after the recent disaster and the need to come up from a weeklong blackout, it was so nice just to plug in the laptop, insert the USB from the light, and tell it, with one or two clicks,'acclimation', set lighting down to half, which will now ramp up over a week's time to the original setting, and let my corals recover without a hassle. This is day 2 of the program and I can see the change it's making, just a tad brighter, and the response from the stressed corals is good.

 

[WaReefer458]

3 a360we's are what I'd recommend. The radions are nice but too much hassle with adjusting each color spectrum. The kessils you just plug them in, set the intensity, then adjust the color to what you wanna see.

 

[Drewl117]

I run 3 AI hydra 26's on my mixed 125... I've never had any problems and they are growing my corals nicely. No complaints here