Kessil 360we

JEREMY HELMINIAK · Dec 22, 2018

I'm having issues with my lights I think, I'm new to using LEDs I've been old school and always had halides or t5s and decided it was time for something new, after about 6 months now I'm about ready to give up. I'll upload pics of my color settings and my intensity and help or info to point me in the right direction would be greatly appreciated. I have a mixed reef standard 150 gallon long 72x18,24.

PDR · Dec 22, 2018

What problems are you having? Also #mods can we get this moved to the correct forum?

JEREMY HELMINIAK · Dec 22, 2018

PDR said:
What problems are you having? Also #mods can we get this moved to the correct forum?

Things aren't really opening up and looking as full as they used to. That's why I posted pics of my light percentages.

PDR · Dec 22, 2018

A picture of the tank would always help, but your intensity is way too low. Depending on how many lights you have they should be run closer to 80-100% intensity over that size tank.

Watch this video from BRS it should answer all of your questions about these lights.

Oh and welcome to R2R!!!

JEREMY HELMINIAK · Dec 22, 2018

PDR said:
A picture of the tank would always help, but your intensity is way too low. Depending on how many lights you have they should be run closer to 80-100% intensity over that size tank.

Watch this video from BRS it should answer all of your questions about these lights.

Oh and welcome to R2R!!!

I have three of them and I had the intensity up closer to 30% and some of my stuff started bleaching out

Mical · Dec 22, 2018

I agree w/PDR your settings are very low. Pic of my settings on similar sized tank. Color is orange line, intensity is blue line.

JEREMY HELMINIAK · Dec 22, 2018

Mical said:
I agree w/PDR your settings are very low. Pic of my settings on similar sized tank

Being new to using these how slow should I try working up the intensity then. I was told before to run stronger blues so that's why I'm wherein at now.

JEREMY HELMINIAK · Dec 22, 2018

Heres a pic of my tank

PDR · Dec 22, 2018

JEREMY HELMINIAK said:
I have three of them and I had the intensity up closer to 30% and some of my stuff started bleaching out

Could have been a coincidence, but these lights are not super powerful. Even at 100% you’ll be in the 200-300 par range in the top 1/3 of the tank and really should not be enough to bleach out most corals.

Daniel Waters · Dec 22, 2018

Ditto to what others have said. 3 kessil 360we would need or should be able to handle much higher intensity settings for that size of tank. If you are bleaching corals, you need to consider other factors such as acclimation, flow, and nutrient levels

PDR · Dec 22, 2018

JEREMY HELMINIAK said:
Being new to using these how slow should I try working up the intensity then. I was told before to run stronger blues so that's why I'm wherein at now.

The color setting shouldn’t have much impact on the coral. That’s why they developed the “kessil logic”. The color is mainly for visual appeal, so just choose what color you like and adjust intensity from there. The video does a great job of explaining all of this in detail.

JEREMY HELMINIAK · Dec 22, 2018

PDR said:
Could have been a coincidence, but these lights are not super powerful. Even at 100% you’ll be in the 200-300 par range in the top 1/3 of the tank and really should be enough to bleach out most corals.

Should or shouldn't lol.
Ok and how slow should I work that intensity up then.

Mical · Dec 22, 2018

When I went from Orbit marine to Kessils, I started at 30-40% intensity and 40% color and increased 10% per week. I actually went higher than what I'm currently at but corals weren't opening as much and overall visual was too bright. I rolled back to current settings and everything is doing well and growing.

JEREMY HELMINIAK · Dec 22, 2018

JEREMY HELMINIAK said:
Should or shouldn't lol.
Ok and how slow should I work that intensity up then.

And when I did reduce the insanity before the coral came back around and polyps started opening back up, that particular one was a birdsnest too.

JEREMY HELMINIAK · Dec 22, 2018

Ok so I can leave color down just bring the intensity up nice and slow or what.

PDR · Dec 22, 2018

JEREMY HELMINIAK said:
Should or shouldn't lol.
Ok and how slow should I work that intensity up then.

*Shouldn’t lol

10% a week is a good start. Personally I would bump it to 50% to start out but I understand if you are hesitant with the issues you had.

PDR · Dec 22, 2018

JEREMY HELMINIAK said:
Ok so I can leave color down just bring the intensity up nice and slow or what.

Exactly

MTBake · Dec 22, 2018

How old is the tank? Parameters would also help.

JEREMY HELMINIAK · Dec 22, 2018

MTBake said:
How old is the tank? Parameters would also help.

Well the livestock isnt that old but the rock and sand are from a 6 year old tank. All rodi water and I'm at work I dont have all my tank specs on me but everything is within acceptable ranges or what you would want to see them at anyway.