Where Are All the 250 watt MH Fixtures?

[Rizano01]

Hi everyone. I have a 120g, 48 inch, 24 inch deep reef tank with canopy. The tank is 12 months old and it's time to replace all the bulbs. I currently have a Coralife Retrofit 2x150 halides, 2x96, lunar all in one fixture. Instead of just replacing all the bulbs, was thinking about putting that money towards a new similar fixture with 250 watt halides instead of the 150 watt halides, especially now that I just acquired a Rose Bubble Tip Anemone (BTA). I know I will have to ditch the canopy to do this, or at least remove the top of the canopy so it's fully open. Two questions if you will be so kind; 1) As I'm researching, I'm finding it difficult to locate a 250 watt all-in-one as many are discontinued (I found 1 or 2 sites that still have a few left). Any insight into the low availability? 2) I have placed the BTA high in the tank. If I stay with the current fixture, do I have enough light? Your thoughts are always appreciated, thanks.

 

[ryangrieder]

I'd ditch the halide and go with a 6 or 8 bulb t5. Your going to love it 10 times better. More color combinations and cheaper in all ways. Sps lps whatever you got, it will thrive with t5 no problem

 

[Deep Dive Coral]

or go LED with that money. I personally think LED is the way to go.

 

[greg 45]

It is all a matter of the look you want and preference.
I started with mh went to t5 now back to mh
running 400 w would love to try 250's

 

[Mattl22]

Keep the 150s my evaporatetion and temp went up alot when I went up from 150 to 250 if tank isn't real deep 150 should be fine or go LEDs


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[Bertdog]

why not just up grade the MH in the unit to 250 watts , i just converted the older coral life that came with PC to T5 that i got from a MR menber , it wasn't hard to do at all . FYI i have 150 MH and my two anemone are doing fine and i even had and offspring off the bubble one.location are bottom and middle . i personally like having both T5 and MH it does change the look of the tank depending which one are on.