Upgrade 55g to 110g or 150g

[kissman]

I am going to be upgrading my tank. I am 1 trying to plan what to go with a 110g 48x18x30 or a 150g 48x24x30. Below is my current setup on my 55g. What do can I keep and use on the upgrade and what should I upgrade for the bigger tank?

55g
Red Sea Coral Pro Salt
Calcium 430
Alk 8.6dkh
Mag 1480 (Working on getting down)
Nitrates 0
Phosphates 0
Nitrites 0
Ammonia 0
SG 1.026
Temp 78

Warner Marine MF 181 Kone Skimmer
Hydor Wavemaker Controller 2 Hydor 2's on back pointed towards center surface
1 Hydor 2 that runs during lights on in middle of tank pointed center surface
Mag drive 3 return
1 Phosban Reactor with BRS GFO changed every 2 weeks
1 Phosban Reactor with BRS ROX.08 changed every 2 weeks
Nova Extreme Pro 6x 54w T5HO ATI Bulbs changed 4 weeks ago

roughly 60-70lbs of live rock
4 DSB
1 Bubble Tip Anemone
1 Maroon Clown Yellow Strip
1 Royal Gramma
2 Green Chromis
1 Six Line Wrasse
1 Diamond Gobie
New clean up crew of snails
1 Kenya Tree
1 Toadstool
1 Finger Leather
2 Frogspawns
1 rock of Xenia
1 rock assorted mushrooms
1 rock of assorted Zoa's

20g long sump/refugium 8" water
12x12 3" dsb,20 mangroves ,halmidea
300w Finnex heater
live rock and pod condos
6500k daylight bulb 27w(100w) runs at lights out

1 BRS 50mL dosing pump Klakwasser
1 BRS 1.1mL dosing pump 1 is dosing vinegar
1 BRS 1.1mL dosing pump not hooked up will be dosing Mag eventually

 

[Aj Flip]

I would go with the 150. The extra width offers so much more space for aquascaping and the extra water volume means more consistant water quality stability. You could still use the same lights and have any variety of corals you want. You just might have to upgrade your skimmer, get another or bigger reactor for phosphate, another for carbon (both are optional anyways), get a bigger sump, probably switch to a calcium reactor although you don't have to, possibly upgrade your return pump, and add more flow.

Anything that you might have to replace can be used elsewhere such as in a QT tank, frag tank, separate system, etc. Or you can just easily give, sell, trade them to another hobbyist.