Kessil a160we questions.

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I purchased a kessil a160we it's been on my tank for exactly a week. It has replaced a mh that I had on the tank. So everything in the tank seems to be happy with the light. My question is any one out there have a good setup for this light that hadr had good success with growth exc. I have the controller I have been upping the intensity over the week I'm up to 65% with full color. The light is 12" too 13" of the tank figured I would get some ideas to play with thank you for your time
 

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My buddy has had good growth on his setup. Seems to be on par with his MH.
 

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Had ran 2 on my 40b and they worked really well. Only ran them at about 40% but that was because I was keeping LPS.
 
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I mostly went to led to be safe from power outage and heat in the summer. I had mh for a long time figured I would give it a try. I'm just trying to figure out the best setting for this Pacific light to maximize it use really
 

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What size MH did you replace? Also what size tank and what types of coral, if you don't mind. Thanks
 

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My kessil 160 + heavy feeding did this in about three weeks same height above tank this is a tiny pico reef:

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Second shot.. The mh was a Phenix 150w 14k I had slow to medium growth with that. But the tank is a 24 nano
 
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Looking nice I'm going to the lfs store to check out all what's new time for some more goodies
 

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that growth would probably be eclipsed by any power sps system but one thing is for sure, that's 3 mos growth on my old power compact setup, and 2-3 weeks on kessil, for sure 100% that light is awesome difference no other factors changed.
 
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Yeah I'm loving this light so far I had to make a custom canopy for my jbj nano took me a whyll since I'm no carpenter but it's prefect. I just was wondering haw ppl set up there light all I want ideas maximum potential out of this bad boy
 

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