Kessil Club

slief said:
Best advice I can give is to take it slow. I've been running LED's for 5 years now and when I switched to Kessils from the Reef Tech LED's I matched color and PAR and then backed my par off 10% from what the Reef Techs were putting out. I then raised the Kessil intensity from there about 5% a month to where I am now. One other thing is that the SPS frags that I put in my tank were grown under LED before I got them which makes a big difference because they are already used to LED's. I placed them up high in my tank in permanent positions and they took off immediately. SPS grown under halide or from the ocean may not respond the same way. As such, your results may vary. On that note, last bit of advice I can give is to get corals or frags that are aquacultured (were grown in a tank) and not ones collected from the ocean. And ideally ones that were grown under LED to insure the best chances of them thriving.
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Thanks Scott,

you always there to provide me some good and reasonable advise.

Merry Christmas to you and to your family!

My Skimmers now working so good! I happy with it and I will be adding the RD pump soon too.

By the way, I am re-starting my sps corals as i only have some digi left and no acros, after I have my skimmers broken in, my Kessil and T5 in "correct "postion and building my new sump to have more room for my zeolites reactor and also i am now on the 2nd month of full zeovit system which I beleived the water should be fully cycle with the zeobak bacteria. so, in short, I am almost re-starting everything, in this case, I can start from my presence Kessil intensity and colors setting or should I back it down further?

Cheers,


Jackson
 
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machodik said:
Thanks Scott,

you always there to provide me some good and reasonable advise.

Merry Christmas to you and to your family!

My Skimmers now working so good! I happy with it and I will be adding the RD pump soon too.

By the way, I am re-starting my sps corals as i only have some digi left and no acros, after I have my skimmers broken in, my Kessil and T5 in "correct "postion and building my new sump to have more room for my zeolites reactor and also i am now on the 2nd month of full zeovit system which I beleived the water should be fully cycle with the zeobak bacteria. so, in short, I am almost re-starting everything, in this case, I can start from my presence Kessil intensity and colors setting or should I back it down further?

Cheers,


Jackson
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Sure, just keep an eye on the corals. If they start to bleach, turn the intensity down.
 
Thanks Scott,

But if the corals turn brown should I also turn down the intensity ?

I have see my green Digi that initially when it was placed on top of the LR, it's colors turns some what like unhealthy or even getting some brown and when I lowered it to the base glass now it's green polyps is getting burn and I can say almost 95 % of the corals get back to green color as it suppose to be. So this give me an impression perhaps my Kessil A360WE intensity and colors are way too high?

I have seen and being posted here about BRS comparing the PAR between A360 vs AP 700, to my surprise the PAR of A360 is way too low?

I heard positioning of Corals over their distance varies among colors of the corals ? Say green or light mostly on the bottom while red one on the upper portion much nearer to lights source ....?

Cheers,
 
machodik said:
Thanks Scott,

But if the corals turn brown should I also turn down the intensity ?

I have see my green Digi that initially when it was placed on top of the LR, it's colors turns some what like unhealthy or even getting some brown and when I lowered it to the base glass now it's green polyps is getting burn and I can say almost 95 % of the corals get back to green color as it suppose to be. So this give me an impression perhaps my Kessil A360WE intensity and colors are way too high?

I have seen and being posted here about BRS comparing the PAR between A360 vs AP 700, to my surprise the PAR of A360 is way too low?

I heard positioning of Corals over their distance varies among colors of the corals ? Say green or light mostly on the bottom while red one on the upper portion much nearer to lights source ....?

Cheers,
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If the corals aren't responding well, back the intensity off or start them lower in the tank and move them up gradually.
 
Scorpius said:
I thought browning sps was indicative of high nutrients.
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I agree. At least that browning shouldn't be a result of too much intensity. Could be nutrient related or a deficiency of some sort. Too much intensity usually results with bleaching. I might suggest backing off the color and not the intensity and see how they respond. Too much white light may be causing the issue as well as some corals come from deeper waters where other spectrums don't penetrate.
 
slief said:
I agree. At least that browning shouldn't be a result of too much intensity. Could be nutrient related or a deficiency of some sort. Too much intensity usually results with bleaching. I might suggest backing off the color and not the intensity and see how they respond. Too much white light may be causing the issue as well as some corals come from deeper waters where other spectrums don't penetrate.
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Well, you mentioned about the colors , I think my colors is way to high than intensity , you got a point there , I will lower down first my colors to 5% per week and maximin about 10% lower than intensity setting .

Thanks a lot
 
machodik said:
Well, you mentioned about the colors , I think my colors is way to high than intensity , you got a point there , I will lower down first my colors to 5% per week and maximin about 10% lower than intensity setting .

Thanks a lot
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Color has no bearing on your intensity and one setting should have nothing to do with the other. I'd reduce your color to around 70% and see what that does.
 
Good advise Scott, I will reduce my colors to 70%.

I will just waiting for the new sump to arrived so I can start putting in some Acros to try if they survive
 
I run my 360we's on the bluer side around 45% max from the bluest setting. I found that the corals have better polyp extension with blue light.
 
I'm setting up a tank as a Christmas present (thanks Santa!) and like the look of the Kessil's... anyone have recommendations for a tank with a 36x18 footprint? Was looking at getting two Kessil A160W-E LED Pendent (Tuna Blue) and the gooseneck LED mounts. Wanting mostly LPS, some softies, and eventually anemones.

TIA!
 
Squibege said:
I'm setting up a tank as a Christmas present (thanks Santa!) and like the look of the Kessil's... anyone have recommendations for a tank with a 36x18 footprint? Was looking at getting two Kessil A160W-E LED Pendent (Tuna Blue) and the gooseneck LED mounts. Wanting mostly LPS, some softies, and eventually anemones.

TIA!
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What's up Squibege. Here's my tank, up and running for about 5 months now. An idea how to setup your lights maybe. Mine is a 55 gallon rectangular almost your same dimensions. I ran 3 160WE's spaced 9" apart and about 10" above the water, crazy good coverage and I only run about 30% intensity at brightest :)

No SPS just LPS. I don't like it crazy bright, just crystal clear. Kessil's are F'ing Amazing though!


I ran my cables through the wall and did a custom shelf. I drilled through the shelf and hollowed out some channels to run the power cords and daisy-chain cables for the lights. I have a reefkeeper reef computer its ran to.

Happy with how clean it turned out. Nothing showing except the power cord to the MaxSpec Gyre pump :)
 

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Got my apex to do custom ramping. I eventually want to mix radions with my kessil on a new build :D
 
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