Howdy, first post here. Ive been lurking here and reading threads that I found through google for a few weeks now. I am returning to reefing with my son after about a 15 year hiatus. Me and my son popped into a LFS just to look and he caught the bug the same way I did when I was about his age. He wasn't quite born yet when I got out of reefing and its exciting to see how cool he thinks it is. So we went on a metroplex wide tour of all the LFS to #1 see if he was still interested after seeing a lot of it and #2 decide what we liked if we decided to pursue this for real.
We did decide to dive in and I have purchased us a tank as of yesterday. We bought a waterbox marine x 90.3 with the oak colored stand. I did not buy their lighting package which is what I am here for today. The dimensions of the tank itself are 35.4"×19.7"×21.7" and the tank is 59.3 gallons with no brace or obstructions on the top.
After looking at all the lighting options at the various LFS I have seen all of the popular options that are for sale when it comes to LED lighting. When I last got out of this hobby the LED stuff was just coming on. I still have a brand new in the box 250w halide setup with m80 HQI magnetic ballast and phoenix 14k bulb that I was going to put over an oceanic 30g cube tank, lol. That stuff while never used is all 15+ years old now.
What this whole story gets down to is that I really liked the kessil a360x lights when I saw them in the stores. I liked how it made the corals in the stores pop, I like the shimmer, and I liked the aesthetics. Now I have spent quite a while searching, reading, and watching videos on these lights and the consensus that I observed is that its about 50/50 on them. For what we are going to do which is going to be softys and lps I think from what I have gathered we will be more than fine. I do not want to add supplemental lighting FYI.
My question boils down to this I know for sure I need at least 2 of these, the mounts and the wifi dongle. Would I be better off with 3 turned down a bit or the 2 running higher output? MAYBE one day after we get this down real good id like to do one of the easier SPS like a monti or something but that's way down the road.
We did decide to dive in and I have purchased us a tank as of yesterday. We bought a waterbox marine x 90.3 with the oak colored stand. I did not buy their lighting package which is what I am here for today. The dimensions of the tank itself are 35.4"×19.7"×21.7" and the tank is 59.3 gallons with no brace or obstructions on the top.
After looking at all the lighting options at the various LFS I have seen all of the popular options that are for sale when it comes to LED lighting. When I last got out of this hobby the LED stuff was just coming on. I still have a brand new in the box 250w halide setup with m80 HQI magnetic ballast and phoenix 14k bulb that I was going to put over an oceanic 30g cube tank, lol. That stuff while never used is all 15+ years old now.
What this whole story gets down to is that I really liked the kessil a360x lights when I saw them in the stores. I liked how it made the corals in the stores pop, I like the shimmer, and I liked the aesthetics. Now I have spent quite a while searching, reading, and watching videos on these lights and the consensus that I observed is that its about 50/50 on them. For what we are going to do which is going to be softys and lps I think from what I have gathered we will be more than fine. I do not want to add supplemental lighting FYI.
My question boils down to this I know for sure I need at least 2 of these, the mounts and the wifi dongle. Would I be better off with 3 turned down a bit or the 2 running higher output? MAYBE one day after we get this down real good id like to do one of the easier SPS like a monti or something but that's way down the road.