Calling all kessill owners
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They’ve been working pretty good for me for the last 3 years. All corals grow under em. No complaints.
BestMomEver
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I only have an A80 for a pico. But the color is beautiful and LPS, shrooms, and zoas love it. I considered it when I set up my 60 but decided on the Radion. Now that I’ve seen the color spectrum of the A80, I would consider them for a future build.
I have owned 160s freshwater, 160 tuna blue, 360 WE and 360 NE.
I think they are great lights for some applications, however they, IMO, are a very strong pro/con type of light depending on what you want to keep. The newer release does help mitigate some of the cons. If you like the can look or want to mount lights close to the water then there is nothing better (as mounting close to the water means other lights can't blend). They do tend to be quite expensive for what you get overall.
I think they are great lights for some applications, however they, IMO, are a very strong pro/con type of light depending on what you want to keep. The newer release does help mitigate some of the cons. If you like the can look or want to mount lights close to the water then there is nothing better (as mounting close to the water means other lights can't blend). They do tend to be quite expensive for what you get overall.
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Eddie7144
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They’ve been working pretty good for me for the last 3 years. All corals grow under em. No complaints.
Do you supplement with t5 or no ?They’ve been working pretty good for me for the last 3 years. All corals grow under em. No complaints.
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I've had most of the Tuna blue models A80,A160,360WE and 360X. Currently running A360x with T5 over my new build and A80's over my nano tanks/QT frag tanks. I like the new A360x since there is a bit more controllability with color and wider spread. Compared to the 360WE or AP700 for output/PAR I would say that is debatable.
Best shimmer on the market for LEDs.
They will grow about anything. Paired with T5 you can't lose. Best of both worlds.
This tank is 92gallons, set it up a little over 3 years ago, I already had 3 160we tuna blues on 2 smaller tanks so I just bought 2 more. Didnt see a reason to change brands as I really liked the look of the other tanks with them and the simplicity of the lights not to mention any coral I threw at them grew nicely and colorful. 3 months ago my lfs was blowing out the 360we so I bought one and put it in the center.
No, just the 5 Kessils.
I use the tuna sun 160we on my pico and I have a complaint: there is no lifetime warranty. at five years my blues aren't as deep as they once were even on full blue mode, either some logic has changed in the computing system or some led's are out for the deep blue peaks, but I don't have that near blacklight look anymore and they're not willing to do anything neat to help out. they offered to sell me one at discount, neat to them but I assumed they'd just last forever lol/ nope. at 5 years I need a new light. Id just spend the new money on ai prime since they wanted to double sell me.
There probably was a disclaimer about no help after X years but that's uncool compared to we'll help you for eight years for example lol
even with a 5 year shelf life it beats my old power compacts lol.
There probably was a disclaimer about no help after X years but that's uncool compared to we'll help you for eight years for example lol
even with a 5 year shelf life it beats my old power compacts lol.
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My main source of lighting is DIY multi channel LED's but I am testing a 360x in the middle.
Con:
Cost
No native wireless or controller support
Light spill
Pro:
Compact
Link together, replicates setting automatically
Find tune color
Light weight
You can, and I did, mount these pretty close to the waterline. I'm at 8" above and the single unit is bright. There is a lot of light spill even with a tank that is 30" W x 30" H which is something I wasn't expecting. It may be part reflection from the Euro brace but something I need to look into a bit further. My DIY LED's have a lens that don't have this problem. However, they both shimmer the same so I do not believe this is something strong or unique to Kessil.
What I will say though what these do that others don't is give you the light in the forest look. Meaning on a hazy morning you can see the light rays through the distance. The light ray is clearly visible and you can see the spread. Anyway other than that I'm thinking if I was to go the route of the 360x I would need at least 3 over my 210 gallon tank and I'm not sure they would reach the bottom of my tank which is 30". I am going to break out the Seneye this weekend and see what it reads and compare it to my current lighting. I'm pretty sure I'm already at 90 - 120 par with my setup but it will be using 8 multi-channel chips. If the single Kessil can get at least 90 par at depth then I'll consider picking up another later.
They are solid units though for sure. The main reason why I'm even remotely entertaining them is more to do with aesthetics than being better to what I have. I am going through a major redesign to reduce cords, dongles, wires, power bricks, and anything else related to electricity powered crap in my fish tank. To included both inside, up top, under neath, etc. These would help a lot in this regard.
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Do you disassemble to clean or just run compressed air into the fixture?
MTBake
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I just use compressed air. I have an air compressor in my garage, so it's very easy to do.
