I got new Kessil lights. I need advice

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I have two over a 75g (48x18) and ran 65% color and 40% intensity. Color was on a two hour ramp from 0%-65% and intensity was on a six hour ramp from 11% (where my controller turns them on) to 40%. I ran the lights in this configuration for about a year and had no issues with the corals. 12 hour photo-period.
 
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I have two over a 75g (48x18) and ran 65% color and 40% intensity. Color was on a two hour ramp from 0%-65% and intensity was on a six hour ramp from 11% (where my controller turns them on) to 40%. I ran the lights in this configuration for about a year and had no issues with the corals. 12 hour photo-period.
+1 on this. This is about what I run my Kessils on several mixed SPS/LPS tanks.
 

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Color is just for looks. That's the good thing about Kessils - turn the color to whatever you like to look at.

There are a lot of variables for intensity like the height that the lights are hung, spacing and angles, length of photoperiod, use of supplemental lights, etc. What I did that seemed to work for me was start then at 20% and increase the max intensity by 5% a week. Keep increasing weekly until things start to look less happy than the week before.
 
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