Hi, took folks advice and opinions on the reeflo 250 as a kick butt skimmer and am loving it so far on my smaller reef tanks, now I am on to lighting. My tank is a monster, its 96 x 48 x 36 tall, initially I thought of running my existing 4 x 400W MH with spider reflectors and adding another 2 x 400W (so 2400W total plus some supplemental T5 lighting just for visuals (maybe some actinic), but am now thinking of possibly downgrading to 6 x 250W with lumenbright 3's.
Obvoiusly the 250's would be much cooler and less electricity hogs, but with 36" of water (well, likely 34" of water, 1" sand and 1" air space for the wavebox wave) I am unsure if the 250's would be enough.
Care to share your opinion, and if you can short cut me to any links of similar tanks, that would be great.
Here is a top down look, maybe 400's in the middle and 250's on the edges (or is that overkill?) - the grey is the live rock formation, the black is flow pattern, the blue circles are approx light spread.
Thanks in advance
Mark
Obvoiusly the 250's would be much cooler and less electricity hogs, but with 36" of water (well, likely 34" of water, 1" sand and 1" air space for the wavebox wave) I am unsure if the 250's would be enough.
Care to share your opinion, and if you can short cut me to any links of similar tanks, that would be great.
Here is a top down look, maybe 400's in the middle and 250's on the edges (or is that overkill?) - the grey is the live rock formation, the black is flow pattern, the blue circles are approx light spread.
Thanks in advance
Mark
. My friend Dennis (Hogall) has the same dimension tank as your and i recommend him to use 2x1000w on light mover but he doesn't plan on keep SPS therefore i recommend 2x400 on light mover and Lumen Bright large with Radium bulb. 
