Is my LIGHTING good enough?

[reef dude]

Hey everyone, i'm on the last step of setting up my 90 gal......LIGHTS. I just ordered a Delux combo hood system from reeffanatic.com. Its a Hamilton Delux hood system with 2 MH bulbs (175 watts each) and then it also has 2 Normal Output (40 watt) flourescent bulbs. Thats a total of 430 watts. Is that enough to have a reef with some nice corals??

 

[nacl-h2o]

Yes, but I would be a little worried about keeping sps anywhere but in the top half on the aquarium. 90g are deep and would probably need 250w x 55wpc to keep anything any where. but you would be ok for most corals in most of your tank.

 

[reef dude]

what do you mean by SPS corals?

 

[justin_ny]

sps is small polps stone. it is really hard to maintain this coral. need a lot of calcium and high lightning to grow.

 

[reef dude]

does this site sell those? what are some of the specific kinds?

 

[lettheirberock]

check out <a href="http://www.garf.com" target="_blank">www.garf.com</a> for a ton of info on sps corals.