Setting up SPS tank, need some sanity checks =)

[Kinetic]

I'm setting up a SPS tank and wanted to see what the experts think!

Tank: 36" x 20" x 22" tall
Braceless/Rimless 1.5" Acrylic open top
60lbs Reeferrocks (seeded with some 7 year old live rock, yes 7 year old pest free LR)
Bare bottom

This tank is going into the living room, so I don't want too much light flooding the room. It's also open top (trimless/braceless) so I'm going to be hanging a pendant.

Flow: 4x Tunze 6045's when they come out. These put a little under 1200gph each, so that would be 4800 gph. This will be 70x turnover, and on top of that my return from the sump will be a quiet one 5000, so after headloss probably 700-900gph, which will bump the system to almost 80x turnover. Is this too much? Too little?

Lighting: I have a 250watt HQI + 2x24watt T5 actinic Maristar pendant and a 14K Pheonix Lamp. Will this be a good setup for SPS? I'm afraid to go to dual 250's because of the crazy light flooding the entire room. For a 36" tank, would a 250 be enough? It's also only 22" tall of a tank, minus probably 1.5" for the bottom acrylic piece and maybe another inch for the water height.

Filtering: Fuge, RDSB, phosphate/carbon reactor, and either a Tunze 9010 skimmer, Octopus 110 Recirc, EuroReef RS80, or ASM G2.

Any advice / suggestions?

 

[the_anti_honda]

You can probaly get away with a single 250 but you will have a bit of a shadow on each side. Might want to look into dual 250s. Also ATI is comming out with a really nice skimmer avaiable in the US soon. The BM 200 would work well on that system.

Other thenk that it looks like you have a great setup.

 

[Kinetic]

where can I find more info on the ATI skimmers?

dual 250s won't be overkill? i'm thinking it'd at least flood the room. The tank is right next to a piano, so that would suck to be playing piano and have a constant glare coming from your left side =(

I might just have to deal with the shadows on the sides and not put any high light SPS there. Maybe a digitata or something similar...