Need Help Selecting Lighting 90gal LPS

[CRAZYELEGANCE]

Hello RC. I am trading up! Just picked off a custom made, 90 gallon, acrylic, half hexagon, saltwater aquarium with full set up - including: 36" coralife dual lamp compact florescent lights. I am currently starting my LPS clan, and have a 77 gal square tank (24"x24"x31") running with a 24" coralife aqualight pro (1 250 10k mh, 2 65w blue cf, 2 3w lunar led). I am having good growth with the aqualight pro, and think that my new 36" dual lamp won't really do. I looked at a 36" coralight aqualight pro, and that is same rig I have in 24" just wider, correct?

So here is my question - Should I place the 24" coralife aqualight pro in new tank? Or should I really be looking at new lighting all together? If so, suggestions please for LPS (And no I don't have 5G's to float on lighting lol, so keep it realistic in cost if you can yah dreamers. )

Other small note - 24"coralife isn't retrofit. Full unit I have mounted to a heatsink then hood ceiling. DIY is good stuff lol.

Entire New Unit Measures, aprox. 40"Wide x 21"Deep x 22"High

New Tank Measures - Flat Hexagon
Length 40in
Side 12in
Width 8in
Front 36in
Height 28in

Thanks for any help!

 

[alton]

2 x 175w Metal Halide. LPS love MH

 

[Donkeykong]

doesnt look like the canopy is going to be tall enough to run a halide without having some heat issues. How well is it ventilated? I would think you would be able to fit a 6x36w ATI T5 fixture in there and that would give you good coverage and plenty for LPS. If you go with T5's go with the better fixtures especially since your are so deep at 28" they will need very good reflectors to push that far down.

 

[CRAZYELEGANCE]

Went with 1 x250w 14k phoenix 2 x 24" Hamilton PC actinic lights. I am hunting another 250 refit to add, and will replace the PC's (that I already had) with LED DIY actinics. LPS's are doing great in "sweet spot" and temps are manageable. I am running a canopy with 6 thermo fans.