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I have 3 Kessils and 2 400 watt halides no reason to go LED only unless you want to.
If by best you mean most likely to lead to a successful healthy SPS dominate aquarium you are probably looking at some halides and t5s. If by best you mean coolest looking , with the sexiest app, and great blue pop then maybe you will go all LED.
The hybrid solution is a great option if you value what both technologies have to offer. You might also find it to be one of the cheaper options. It gets very hard for me to justify using an all LED solution like BRS did on their 750XXL when a hybrid solution would be substantially cheaper and perform as well or better.
In this case I am a kessil fan boy. 3 A360Xs will be a great staring point. If you add a hybrid later you should be golden. Everyone will have their favorite but I will give you my reasons for liking kessil.should have mentioned looking into led fixtures only at this moment however after doing some searches here and there understand hybrid is really the longterm solution for growing proper sps colonies.
Algae can be caused by miss using a fixture. such as too much red or too much par. Some fixtures are just much easier to miss use than others. I am not saying other brands don't work, only that it is much harder to messup with Kessils from my own experience.Algae blooms aren’t caused by branding of fixture. The customer is absolutely not right in this instance. Algae blooms are caused by inadequate herbivores. Not the ecotech or AI badge on the fixture.
Algae can be caused by miss using a fixture. such as too much red or too much par. Some fixtures are just much easier to miss use than others. I am not saying other brands don't work, only that it is much harder to messup with Kessils from my own experience.
I attribute this to the Kessil logic automatically balancing the color and the 90W size that isn't so bright it can easily bleach everything. Most people simply need to put the light on their tank, pick the color they like, and run it at 100%. This can not be said for many other brands. In fact if you followed this procedure with most brands you would wind up with problems, one of which is excessive algae.
Personally, I favor MH + T5. However, if you want to stay with LED lights, I highly recommend you look at ReeFi lights by @danlu_gt . There are quite a number of members here that swapped their Radions out for ReeFis, love them and haven't looked back. Anothet endorsement, of sorts, is that Dana Riddle uses them.