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bif24701
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That's a great set up, 2 fixtures surely give you great performance. A great amount of overlap can be had with the right mounting height reducing shadowed areas on the acros. I feel that's important for acros, they grow up and branch more so than other corals and that shades themselves. Overlapping the two lights will certainly help in this area. Not only directly but I find a great amount of light bounces around off the glass and substrate.
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gbarks66
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New to this again!!!
New to this again!!!
Hello all! Recently set up a 150 gallon reef tank. After a nightmare of an original set up (recon tank leaked ALL water out in 8 hrs overnight) destroying 2 floors in our home. 1 1/2 months later and a NEW tank along with a new LFS and a trip to an attorney, things are underway. Our avatar is a current pic of our tank. Been having water tested weekly, have a quarantine tank set up. Added 100 lbs of live rock, few fish and some corals, anemone, some zoas and a hammer coral. We went all out on lighting (we think) with a kessil ap700, 2 ice cap gyre power heads. looking forward to all the helpful info on here. :beer:
New to this again!!!
Hello all! Recently set up a 150 gallon reef tank. After a nightmare of an original set up (recon tank leaked ALL water out in 8 hrs overnight) destroying 2 floors in our home. 1 1/2 months later and a NEW tank along with a new LFS and a trip to an attorney, things are underway. Our avatar is a current pic of our tank. Been having water tested weekly, have a quarantine tank set up. Added 100 lbs of live rock, few fish and some corals, anemone, some zoas and a hammer coral. We went all out on lighting (we think) with a kessil ap700, 2 ice cap gyre power heads. looking forward to all the helpful info on here. :beer:
How many ap700s should i run on a 300 6x3x2 tank? I was originally going to do 6 or 9 360we as i allrady have 6 of them, but then i thought of adding 2 or 3 ap700s down the middle and putting the 360wes along the outside of the tank.
Two questions how does the 360s and ap700 mix?
If i just went ap700 would 4 cover a 6x3x2 tank?
Two questions how does the 360s and ap700 mix?
If i just went ap700 would 4 cover a 6x3x2 tank?
So I'm thinking of switching out my blue+ supplements for something else to run with my AP 700. Any suggestions?
I previously tried Coral+ and it gave out too much of a purple/pink hue and was too white. And the deeper blue from the kessil combined with the Coral+ gave a funky mix of a white/pink/purple hue. The Blue+ is just too blue and requires me to up the color temperature on the LED end and doesn't light things well on the edges.
I was thinking the next logical choice would be Aqua Blue Special since it has less of a red peak and would be on the white end compared to the Blue+
I'm open to other suggestions though. Especially Giesmann bulbs as I've had no experience with them.
My tank is 24x30x24 with two AP 700's running across the tank and the front and back could use some illumination. Due to the canopy, I can't place the lights front to back to alleviate that, so I turned to T5s to fill in those gaps in the front and back.
I previously tried Coral+ and it gave out too much of a purple/pink hue and was too white. And the deeper blue from the kessil combined with the Coral+ gave a funky mix of a white/pink/purple hue. The Blue+ is just too blue and requires me to up the color temperature on the LED end and doesn't light things well on the edges.
I was thinking the next logical choice would be Aqua Blue Special since it has less of a red peak and would be on the white end compared to the Blue+
I'm open to other suggestions though. Especially Giesmann bulbs as I've had no experience with them.
My tank is 24x30x24 with two AP 700's running across the tank and the front and back could use some illumination. Due to the canopy, I can't place the lights front to back to alleviate that, so I turned to T5s to fill in those gaps in the front and back.
bif24701
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Looks all out too me! Great choices and good luck!
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bif24701
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I was only going to do 3 with a few T5s, 4 would be plenty.
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bif24701
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I think the Blue Plus from ATI best matches the color of the AP700 and is what I have, 2 of them. Why not the Blue Plus, what did you not like?
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Too blue. I was a metal halide Radium on an M80 magnetic ballast kid. lol This LED generation is too much.
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Kessil AP700 Newbie Question
Kessil AP700 Newbie Question
Newbie question; I connected my AP700 to an outlet on my Apex. It was programmed to turns on at 11am and off at 11pm. Will the Kessil revert to the light program I programmed into it, or will it revert to an "œoff" state when the outlet is switched on by the Apex in the morning at 11am? I have it over a 60ga cube, what height do you recommend to light a mixed reef w/minimal spillage of light in the room?
Thanks
Kessil AP700 Newbie Question
Newbie question; I connected my AP700 to an outlet on my Apex. It was programmed to turns on at 11am and off at 11pm. Will the Kessil revert to the light program I programmed into it, or will it revert to an "œoff" state when the outlet is switched on by the Apex in the morning at 11am? I have it over a 60ga cube, what height do you recommend to light a mixed reef w/minimal spillage of light in the room?
Thanks
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reefer31
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Couple months 100% now:
How long is your photoperiod/duration for those at 100%??? I was sitting at 15" above tank for my 120 ( 2 x ap700) and at 82% right now for 8 hrs. Some acros are paler than others and it's not due to Low nutrients. Just wondering if I should lower duration or something.
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natanitelite
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Couple months 100% now:
Absolutely beautiful tank.
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