Kessil Club

I am now an official member of the Kessil Club! I have a soft coral only system, and now have two a360w's over my 5' 100 gallon... I am replacing a 4' Current T5 system (WITHOUT individual reflectors). I am doing a 14 day acclimation with the Spectral Controller, and my question is regarding the intensity.

My lighting schedule is as follows: (color/intensity)
9:00 0/5
13:00 50/45
15:00 65/55
17:00 50/45
21:00 0/0

This is completely an experiment. Does that seem to be appropriate? I have the acclimation mode set to begin at 40% intensity. Does anyone have any input on how I could improve my schedule?
 
MJT82 said:
I am now an official member of the Kessil Club! I have a soft coral only system, and now have two a360w's over my 5' 100 gallon... I am replacing a 4' Current T5 system (WITHOUT individual reflectors). I am doing a 14 day acclimation with the Spectral Controller, and my question is regarding the intensity.

My lighting schedule is as follows: (color/intensity)
9:00 0/5
13:00 50/45
15:00 65/55
17:00 50/45
21:00 0/0

This is completely an experiment. Does that seem to be appropriate? I have the acclimation mode set to begin at 40% intensity. Does anyone have any input on how I could improve my schedule?
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Welcome to the club. Schedule looks good to me. Just watch your corals. If they start stretching then raise the intensity slowly until they look normal.
 
Finally got my lights. I originally purchased one A160we and one A360we to compare. I placed both over my 24x24x14 frag tank temporarily. The A160 was OK, but since my tank is 8'x2'x2' I purchased 4 used A360we's with a blue fish controller from a fellow reefer. I might put the A160we on my frag tank.

The only issue I have with the lights is I was going to mount them with the supplied hanging bolt and drilled through my canopy top. 3 are missing and the guy couldn't find them. Any ideas where to get them?
 
bryanr said:
Finally got my lights. I originally purchased one A160we and one A360we to compare. I placed both over my 24x24x14 frag tank temporarily. The A160 was OK, but since my tank is 8'x2'x2' I purchased 4 used A360we's with a blue fish controller from a fellow reefer. I might put the A160we on my frag tank.

The only issue I have with the lights is I was going to mount them with the supplied hanging bolt and drilled through my canopy top. 3 are missing and the guy couldn't find them. Any ideas where to get them?
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You could take the light to HD or Lowe's and see if they have the bolts.
 
I upgraded from 4 a150w to 3 a360we and 1 350N over the new tank. Gotta say i am much happier with these compared to the 150's....which were still worth every penny.

IN any case, i am wondering (having just purchased the 3rd 360we, already running the other 2),

WILL a regular av cable with double male ends work in place of the sync cable everybody is charging 25 bux for.....i mean, we can buy a normal av cables for less than 10 bux.... any body tried it yet
 
Yep male/male. I also have a long male/female extender so i can sit on my couch with my Kessil Controller (not wireless )
 
that is genius.......i hate standing against my wall to use my controller....haha. duh!

going to walmart tomorrow. thanks brudda.
 
Check out monoprice if you want a cable really cheap. It's where I buy all my av stuff. when the controllable kessils first came out I fabed up my own to work with my reef keeper. All of 2 dollars to make it work 😆
 
So I'm at 65% intensity and 65% color and everything looks great except this one green montipora who had parts that turned white then brown. Should I back down on either color or intensity? When and how often should I then start increasing?

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Kessil 360 over 29 biocube

Kessil 360 over 29 biocube

My light is 6.5 inches over the water line. The depth is about 15 inches to sand. I know this is a powerful light but I can't tell if I'm losing color from my SPS bc of the intensity not being strong enough or when I had high nitrates (10) and a small outbreak of cynodbacteria. I dosed iron today as the 2 corals I'm having the biggest issues with are green. Spongodes and Green Slimmer. Both got tan/brown.

I made a few changes in the sump removing rubble rock and adding media basket and skimmer. Skimmer is still breaking in so I figured that was the cause of nitrates to rise.

Main question (sorry off subject) is how do you read your corals to make adjustments to Kessil?

I have it on a ramp program with my apex. 10 hours a day. 6 hours @ 14% 1 hour ramp up and 1 down to 25% and run 2 hours of 25%.

Now my LPS all seem to be good and color is fine except my Mystic Sunset but I think its just level I had it placed.

Anyone running a kessil on a BC 29 and would share their schedule? Thanks!!!
 
For those of you with sps in your tanks, what is your color and intensity looking like? I have a 12 gallon nano. Highest intensity right now is 70 and color 60. Ramping schedule 9am to 9pm
 
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