250 or 400?

[sabby]

Ok... just wanted to get some opinions.
In a month or so, I'm going to be upgrading the lights on my 175 gallon bowfront. The new setup that I'll be going for is a triple MH and quad VHO retrofit. Would you go with 250 watts or 400 watts for the metal halides? There's no difference in cost between the two setups...
I'm leaning towards the 400 watts, since the price is the same... but I'd like to know what others think. I want to be able to keep pretty much anything I want (clams, SPS, anemones, etc)

 

[jugger]

for the same price i would go wiht the 400s on a deep 175 bow....just watch the heat

 

[kpk]

If not to deep you could go 250w, but like jugger said the price will be close and the light would be more with the 400w. I would go 400w. As long as you have a chiller of some kind of cooling system.