Enough Lighting?

[Daddypugg]

Hey Gang quick question:

I recently purchased a used 90G tank and it came with 2 48" Custom SeaLife PC's running 2 65W bulbs each (4 * 65w) is this enough light?

Right now the tank is FOWLR and an anemone, I would like to go to a fish/reef mix eventually.

Thanks in advance for all the insight

[starfish]

Generally, you will want 4-6 watts per gallon to keep livestock(anemones and most light-loving organisms) happy. You may get by if your placement is high enough in the tank. Good luck!

[tendar]

It is enough for most all softies and lps with the more light loveing towards the top of the pile.

[Coral104]

I'm a newbie, what does lps stand for?

[tendar]

Large poly stonies.
THese include the likes of brains, frog spawns, bubble and the like.

[deansreef]

definetaly not enought light for any coral in my opinion

[mikeortrina]

We have 4 110 Watt 2 are actinic "03" and 2 are actinic white and 2 160 Watt 1 actinic "03" and one actinic white VHO tubes on our 110 gallon (wanta be reef). That is a total 760 watts of light which is almost 7 watts per gallon. I have been thinking about adding 3 175 watt metal halide lights also. Would the addition of the metal halide lights make our corals healthier, are metal halide lights really that much better? Currently we keeping about 4 different types of mushrooms, finger leather, colt coral, cup coral, cabbage leather, bubble coral, torch coral, a cauliflower and a clam. most seem to be doing pretty good just not a huge amount of growth. Would they benefit from the addition of the metal halides?