Reefvet
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E series lights are 15% brighter than the original series.
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E series lights are 15% brighter than the original series.
zoomonster
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I have a question everybody>>>
I just installed 4 360we over 250 mixed reef. Man, I really love these lights, mainly the shimmer…when I see other tanks without the kessils, they look boring to me. The shimmer really adds that special touch. Now for the question, I like my tank on the blue side, also for the corals to pop. I have mine at 65% intensity, and 25% color. Question is , is the 25% blue ok for sps ? I know they have the Kessil Logic, so am I safe running at 25% color.
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Well safe probably but more a matter of taste I guess. Those settings should be washing out the tank in blue especially the fish. Non fluorescing corals probably look really washed out too. I'm controlling mine with Apex and coming on at 9am with a 2 hour ramp up 14-78 power and 0-77 color. At 7pm they do a 2 hour ramp down 78-30 power and 77-0 color and stay until 10. That gives me sunrise/morning, long day light period and good viewing at night for all the very fluorescent stuff I have. My fish and non fluorescent stuff all are at best during daylight.
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Came home from work last night to these sitting on my deck waiting for me! Longest 5 days ever! Still have to straighten up the wires but everything is hooked up.
Question about the kessil gooseneck mount. Anyone have any experiences with one gooseneck being really difficult to move and the other moves so freely it's hard to get it to stay where you want it? I feel like positioning these things should be really easy, and it was for one, not the other.
Question about the kessil gooseneck mount. Anyone have any experiences with one gooseneck being really difficult to move and the other moves so freely it's hard to get it to stay where you want it? I feel like positioning these things should be really easy, and it was for one, not the other.
ojedahouse
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I have been using Kessil since they first came out, I have two 360We and i run them for 12 hours a day. I believe they reach a power of 90% for about 4 hours or so. My Reef has done very well with them. I also run a couple of two white and two blue T5s for about 2 hours per day. not sure why I just do.. Ill try to remember how to upload some pics for you.
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ojedahouse
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zoomonster
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Lower them... sounds like too high. I don't have any spillover whatsoever but mine are pretty low. Not counting the sandbed my tank is ~25" deep and with a width of 24" I run mine just 3" off the glass tops. The most I get is some shimmer on the ceiling from reflection. Of course if you lower them you may also be able to reduce power.
lhm nole
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Kessil recommended 10 inches from water surface on the wide models
moondoggy4
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40gal
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That's interesting. I'm currently running mine about 6" above. I have a screen over my rimless (24"x24"), so I can really see the pattern of the light. If I went to 10" above water level, I'd have a lot of spillover. Is anyone else running them that high?
Scorpius
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I run my Kessil A360we's 13 inches over the surface of the water. There is a lot of light spilling out, but my LPS are growing like weeds.
Hope_L
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Just got a A150, bought used from a friend of the owner of my LFS, thought I was getting the A160 tuna blue so I was a little disappointed but went ahead and got it anyway. I have a 14 gallon nano. I can't seem to get placement right. If I keep it really low then I don't have any spillover but if I raise it more than 2-3" above the water there is a ton. Does it matter? Is there a right way/ wrong way??
40gal
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What intensity are you running yours and how deep is your tank? I'm running 35% on an 18" tank right now for reference.
Scorpius
Stick Head
Tank is a DSA 65 Neo so its 21 inches tall. So approximately 34 inches from the light to my sand bed. I'm currently slowly raising my light intensity and it's at 35% intensity currently for 3 hrs. I have a Duncan, Hammer, Torch, Chalice, Paly's, and one Rock Flower Anemone.
I have a 360we on a 180 maybe 8 inches off of water at 100% intensity and doesn't seem to be growing much coral. I just put a 250w metal halide next to it and see if corals start looking better, and on the 3rd section of 180 I have 2x ecoray 60d led pretty much those Chinese led boxes and I'm suprised they actually growing stuff.
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