Need help with new lights

[devildog1986]

well im getting a new aquarium next week, pretty much have everything to have it running its going to be a 180 gallon bowfront, so its much deeper, dont know what lights to get for it, right now i am using Sundial T5HO lights but those are only four light fixtures, im looking into getting the Nova Extreme Pro, with 6bulbs on it, Or find a company that makes a fixture with 8 T5 bulbs and ive also seen The Combos that come with The T5's and MHL, need yalls help, what do you all recommend for my corals thank you

[ramsey]

I have a 175g bowfront and went with LEDs. However, before I decided to go with LEDs, I was going to do either 3 400w MH or 1 400w MH and 2 250w MH both with actinic supplementation (T5 or VHO). If your tank is anything like mine, it's about 30" deep which IMO is a little too deep for T5's only. I looked at a lot of the all in one fixtures but I didn't see much in the way of 400w MH lamps.

[devildog1986]

yeah thats the one i have, its about 30 deep as well, 72long, 18 wide and 24 1/2 wide at the center of the bow

[kkiel02]

I would go with 250w if its only 30" tall. You may not be able to grow the higher light demanding corals on the bottom but with 400w you might need a chiller. The reeflux 12k bulbs are pretty popular if you decide to go metal halide.

Post some pics when you set it up please.

[devildog1986]

well i finally figured out what im going to do first off, timmytimtim!!!thanks a lot for the help and the site, it was an enourmous help, i owe you lunch or something, i am getting
two 36 inch fixtures, they both are for T5HO, im using those as my morning and evening lights, for the main lights of the day i am going to go with 3 MHL, not sure how many wattz yet, but will figure out hopefully by next week, and hopefully that should work for my sps acro's and LPS, took a while to figure out but should work out just fine, thanks for the help guys, and i will post pictures, i got to be able to showoff my awesome tank LOL