Salty150
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Hey, sorry I can't help you out with settings (I wish I could, but don't own the AP700 yet).
But, do you find that one AP700 works for your 90 gallon? I assume it is the 48" 90 gallon?
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Hey, sorry I can't help you out with settings (I wish I could, but don't own the AP700 yet).
But, do you find that one AP700 works for your 90 gallon? I assume it is the 48" 90 gallon?
j.a.c.wester
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I currently am running 2 ap700 above my acrylic 220x60x50( cm) reef tank. in inches it's probably 86x24x20 and the are running at 15%..... max!!!!! ofcourse the ar just starting so the corals need to adjust but,,, holly cow,,, the are strongXD
JoJoTheClown
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Yeah the AP700 has plenty of juice for my 90 gallon, I have it about 7 inches above the water and my corals are happy from top to bottom.
Salty150
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Hey, thanks!
I am trying to figure out if one AP700 will be enough for my 120 gallon - which is a foot longer than your 90 - 60" long x 18" high x 26" deep.
Scorpius
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Salty150
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lol, you don't even know what is in my tank
It will only have frogspawn and hammer corals (for the near and foreseeable future) - which only required moderate to less than moderate light.
Still no?
Scorpius
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lol, you don't even know what is in my tank
It will only have frogspawn and hammer corals (for the near and foreseeable future) - which only required moderate to less than moderate light.
Still no?
How can a light that is only rated to cover 48in cover your size tank?
vhuang168
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lol, you don't even know what is in my tank
It will only have frogspawn and hammer corals (for the near and foreseeable future) - which only required moderate to less than moderate light.
Still no?
If that's all the coral you are ever going to have then yes. But why would you need an AP700 for that? A Chinese black box led for a fraction of the cost will do just as well.
Any one using the iPhone beta app mess around with the green and red color blending? I just noticed you can use it in conjunction with the preset kessil colors. Seems cool and pretty interesting but I'm curious if it could really have any benefit on coral growth/color.
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Salty150
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I like the Kessil shimmer effect and customizable color options, etc.
jiminy_crime
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Ever since I installed my 360s on my 21 inch deep tank, brown diatoms have exploded across the floor of the tank. Does anyone have a lighting schedule that I should use that will help reduce the brown diatoms on the floor of the tank?
I need to know what color and what intensity at what intervals. I have to 360s over a tank that is 30 inches in width
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I need to know what color and what intensity at what intervals. I have to 360s over a tank that is 30 inches in width
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Scorpius
Stick Head
What settings are you currently running?
jiminy_crime
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Start the day at noon at 15% intensity and all blue...peak for 4 hours at 55% intensity and 45% color (more blue) and come back down to 15% intensity all blue. I am running them for 12pm to 10pm currently.
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Scorpius
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I would turn your 55% intensity down to 40% for 4 hrs. and run your color at 35%. You're not going to hurt coral with lower intensities. Don't forget these lights are deceptively bright.
Run this for 1 month and see how your tank responds. I run 40% intensity for 4 hrs with a peak of 35% on the color side. I have the Kessil A360we's. LPS, SPS, softies all doing well.
jiminy_crime
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So too intense is going to drive the diatoms? I have read articles that conflict where this is a sign of not enough intensity and others that say it's a sign of too much. I definitely like 35% color the best.
Will I at some point ramp up higher or do I just stay at 40% on a tank this size?
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Will I at some point ramp up higher or do I just stay at 40% on a tank this size?
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Scorpius
Stick Head
You either buy a par meter or raise the intensity of your lights once a month and see how things respond. I noticed a few of my corals getting lighter in color so I lowered my intensity to 40% from 45%. I now wait and see how they respond. Slow and steady with this.
Whether you go higher than 40% intensity on your tank depends on a plethora of things. You want to give everything just the right amount of light to grow and be happy. If that means 40% intensity or 100% intensity then so be it, but don't get hung up on the fact that these lights can go to 100% intensity. Just because you can doesn't mean you should.
I used to be worried that I wasn't anywhere near 100% intensity till I finally realized how intense Kessil light is compared to what my eye sees.
What you should shoot for is happy, growing coral at whatever intensity/color works for YOUR system.
jiminy_crime
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I had been raising them 5% a month and everything kept expanding bigger and bigger but I have hated the look of all the diatoms on the floor once I went above 40%. It's funny, when you said 40%, I laughed under my breath because that was the intensity where I had good coral expansion and little to no diatoms on the ground.
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Chicagoreef2016
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For a 93 cube, 30x30x24, could you use two 160 tuna blues, as opposed to 1 or 2 360 tuna blues?
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