What light would you recommend?

[Fishyj]

Hi all, I recently went from a fluval 13.5 tank which I was running the Kessil A80 to a 20 gallon tall tank. I currently have the A80 hooked up but I don't think its enough light. What light would you recommend that I can control. I do keep my light more towards the blue side. I am looking for something that is reasonably priced. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Crabs McJones]

Hi all, I recently went from a fluval 13.5 tank which I was running the Kessil A80 to a 20 gallon tall tank. I currently have the A80 hooked up but I don't think its enough light. What light would you recommend that I can control. I do keep my light more towards the blue side. I am looking for something that is reasonably priced. Any help would be appreciated.

What about getting another A80 and daisy chaining them together?

 

[Fishyj]

What about getting another A80 and daisy chaining them together?

I really didn't think of that. I will check with kessil and see. Thanks.

 

[gcarroll]

AI Prime perhaps.

 

[Crabs McJones]

AI Prime perhaps.

Prime was going to be my other suggestion.

 

[gcarroll]

I have a friend who is setting up a 6' Red Sea peninsula tank using only 3 primes.

 

[Fishyj]

I contacted Kessil, waiting for a response. I will have to look again into the AI prime as well as kessil 160.

 

[taj0930]

What do you plan on keeping?

 

[Fishyj]

Plan on possible clam, maybe some sps corals. I just want flexibility. Kessil said what I thought, and I really don't like the looks of the A160. I am leaning towards the prime if as of now. Any other opinions?

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

i don’t belive the prime will support a clam.

Look at the Ai website for the specs.

You need to balance the live stock to the par levels you give the tank.

An a80 is the weakest kessil. The 16o next then the 360. Pretty sure the prime is between the 160 n 360.

An easy clam will need about 150 par min for ten hours. The rest of corals might not like that.
My shrooms and frogspawn sure didn’t. Also keep in mind some sps only need 25–50 par for ten hours. Some need 350. A common easy sps is just under 100.

 

[Fishyj]

Looking at the site, prime hd
36 x 36 inch area. 24 inch height above open air. Will give peek par of 93. My question is with a goose neck mount it will be 5 to6 inches above water what should raise par quite a bit. Average par though is 44.95 for a 36x36 area. My tank is 24x12.5. I would have to measure the par. It would be the only true way to tell and adjust corals to readings.