Increasing Kessil Intensity

[Rjukan]

Hello all,

My tank is a 60 cube (2' lxwxh), and I have 1 Kessil AE 360 Tuna Blue on it. I recently bought a few frags from a fellow hobbyist who also runs this same light on his frag tank (700s on the display). He has his set to 100% intensity with 0% white and the corals look amazing, have solid growth, and have been that way for a long time.

I on the other hand have read that most people keep this light at 50% (or at least a lot of people selling claim to have had them at 50% or less), mine has been at 45% intensity and 30% white. So my plan is to slowly ramp up my intensity over the next few weeks and I wanted some advice as to how I should spread it out so I dont shock the coral I have already.

Initial plan was to bump the intensity 5% every 5 days, and drop whites the same amount. Is that too fast or slow? Thanks for any help.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Your plan is good. Keep an eye on the corals. They will tell you.

 

[Rjukan]

Ok thanks. What am I looking for if they are getting too much too quick? I have several Zoas, monti, digi, lobo, candy cane, favia corals.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

You’ll know.

Zoas May shrink up at the end of the day Sps May get pale , lps May het pale etc.

What you’re doing is looking for the sweet spot in the tank.
It’s a function not only of light but if nutrients and alk. No two tanks are really the same , and coral take a very wide range of lighting intensity.

Yours , even with the exact same tank Light and higth over the tank etc may be different from the next guy.

A very good discussion.

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/how-to-find-your-led-intensity-sweet-spot.308181/#post-3785697

 

[Rjukan]

Thanks for the link, it was a good read. It sounds like you're right and I need to find out the sweet spot for myself by trial and error. At least after seeing him run them at that setting, I wont be worried ramping mine up. I was so scared of too much light that I didn't want to experiment with it.