Gone from 29 to 150 in 4 months

[dapettit]

I will be acquiring an established 150 gallon acrylic reef ready tank complete with refugium. lights and stand over the 4th of July weekend. The lighting consits of 5 PC's and 1 250W 10K MH light. It has about 100LBs or more of live rock covered with large blue mushrooms. The sand bed is 2" or more deep. Will include 1 - green carpet anenome, 1 - large Clark's clown fish, 1- fake clown, 1 - large yellow tang, and 1 - large fox face rabbit fish. There is another large fish we can't identify. The tank has really been neglected and will need a lot of work to get cleaned up. I plan to put the fish and some live rock in a friends 55 to hold them over the weekend.

We will need to refinish the stand and build a hood for the light system. The tanks is 6ft long, 2ft wide, we think it is 3ft deep.

Here is my question:

How many MH 250 should I use on this set up? I will keeping stonys, other LPS and softies along with fish.

[hobogato]

with a tank that deep, you may consider going to 400 watt halides - i would say 2 or 3.

[LoneStar]

The tanks is 6ft long, 2ft wide, we think it is 3ft deep.

You sure its these dimensions? If so, it adds up to be around 269 gallons ;)

Even if its 6' x 2' x 2' its a 180 gallon

http://www.reefcentral.com/calc/vol.php

If its around 3' deep, 400w halides like Ace mentioned. If your really around 2' or so, 250w halides would be plenty of light.

[dapettit]

Opps,

I'm bad trying to judge dimensions :lol

I think it is 2ft the wife says 3ft go figure . . ;)

[dapettit]

I'm and idiot. . .

It's only 5ft long :wub

[txstateunivreefer]

well if its 6x2x2 thats basically what i have but a little wider and 2-3 in taller i would do 3x 250 mh and run 4x t5s for your atinic i am running 2x 250 and 4x65 w pcs and i wish i had one more mh and the t5s instead of the pcs

[LoneStar]

:lol Leave it to the wife to have the 'exact' measurements! :w00t

Yup those sound more like a 150g range. It surprised me because I have a 150g thats 5' x 2' x 2' and your numbers didn't seem to add up. I'm going to be running 2 250w halides on my tank, on LumenArc III (diy copy) reflectors. Those should cover the whole tank very nicely.