Kessil A160

[Indo Nano]

For those that use these light, mind sharing what scheduals you have with them? I'm interested to see how my schedule compares with anyone else's. Thanks!

 

[Triggreef]

I use one but no schedule just on/ off for 7 hours.

Honestly the favorite of all lighting I've tried. If i could swing another $2500 for fish lights i would convert my entire set up to a360's.

 

[brandon429]

me too just the same. I run about 60% power, mostly blue, 8 hrs timer from grocery store on/off.

 

[minus9]

12hr cycle with 3hr ramp up, hold peak for 6hrs, then 3hr ramp down. Going on 2 1/2 years with schedule on my 22g sps nano.

 

[Salty_Box_Reef]

12hr cycle with 3hr ramp up, hold peak for 6hrs, then 3hr ramp down. Going on 2 1/2 years with schedule on my 22g sps nano.

Any pics of your tank?

 

[minus9]

Any pics of your tank?

Excuse the crappy iPhone pix.

 

[Salty_Box_Reef]

That's actually really impressive for a single, single point light source. Interesting growth patterns too, I like it.

 

[minus9]

At this point I have three 160's and T5's. I have a lot of flow and I'm fragging some colonies quite a bit. I took off one third of the valida a while ago and fragged the horrida that's growing out of the water several times. I'm upgrading to a 90g shallow soon and wanted to make sure there's no shading. I could've bought another 160, but found an amazing deal on an ATI sunpower and couldn't pass it up.
I bought two AP700's for the 90g and I'll probably add a couple T5's as well. I think Kessil/T5's are the perfect combo. Although, I'll probably just use the Kessil's on their own to start and see where they take me.

 

[Salty_Box_Reef]

The the pic above are from kessils supplemented with T5's?

 

[minus9]

The the pic above are from kessils supplemented with T5's?

No, just the Kessil's. The T5's only come on during peak hours (6hrs).

 

[Salty_Box_Reef]

But the corals are grown with kessils and t5's? Meaning that tank is not lit by JUST the kessils.

 

[Salty_Box_Reef]

I currently have two 160's and two 360's over a standard 48x24x24 120 and I feel like the coverage is not good enough to support grown out colonies.

Previously I had a 65gthat ran on two 350's, did great for several months but eventually shading caused some issues.... added t5's and all the problems went away.

 

[minus9]

But the corals are grown with kessils and t5's? Meaning that tank is not lit by JUST the kessils.

Correct, I added the T5's a year ago. I started with a 2 bulb retrofit, then I added the sunpower at the end of March this year. I was going to add another 160 initially (had two 160's at the time), but opted for the T5 retrofit due to cost. I thought my upgrade to my 90g was going to happen sooner, but I was busy with work and had to postpone until now. I'm still a month or so away before I can move everything to the 90g and didn't want my sps to suffer from shading in such a cramped environment (I need to stop adding more sps). My thought was T5 would be a good temp solution until the 90g was ready, instead of buying more 160's and reselling later. I could've added more Kessil's to start, had I known it was going to take me this long, but you know what they say, hindsight is 20/20.

 

[ifarmer]

Excuse the crappy iPhone pix.

Your tank is too blue.
In real life i dont think the ocean has such color.

 

[minus9]

It's actually not that blue in person. Your typical phone camera doesn't adjust for white balance very well. Also, I've snorkeled in Tahiti, Hawaii, Mexico and the Caribbean and you would be surprised how blue the water actually is. Of course, this all depends on the depth.

 

[TerraFerma]

It's actually not that blue in person. Your typical phone camera doesn't adjust for white balance very well. Also, I've snorkeled in Tahiti, Hawaii, Mexico and the Caribbean and you would be surprised how blue the water actually is. Of course, this all depends on the depth.

I was gonna say that looks pretty good for just Kessil Blue. My iPhone can't even focus properly when it's heavy blue.

 

[jd371]

12hr cycle with 3hr ramp up, hold peak for 6hrs, then 3hr ramp down. Going on 2 1/2 years with schedule on my 22g sps nano.

Basically the same schedule. I have 4 160's over a 75g at 40% color and 70% intensity with a t5 supplement that comes on at peak and stays on for 5 hours.