returning to the hobby

Hello to everyone
my name is Steve and I am from England, but have worked in China for the last 10 years

I had a 50 gallon reef tank for about 6 years when in UK - and have started the hobby again after a 10 year break
currently have 1 x 75 gallon set up for 12 months FOLR ( 2 yellow tail blue damsels - 1 banana wrasse and 1 fireball angel - all doing great. - plus a lot of calerpa

I am also in the process of setting up a 60 gallon (set up 3 weeks ago and at peak of Diatom stage ) this tank will be a reef set up and will house begginers corals - shrooms, softies etc - which is where I was 10 years ago when I left the hobby (due to work relocation)
some of the rock, sand and water - where taken from previously set up tank in order to speed up cycling ( 1 x hermit crab in at present - another relocation! )

1st question - due to mixed opinions when surfing the net

My 75 gallon tank hood is fitted with 5 x 10,000 K , 80 watt T5s - and 1 X 80 watt actinic -

I always wanted to progress to SPS corals - but never had what I considered adequate lighting - always had T10s before

would a tank 12 months old? - with the lighting described - be suitable for me to try one Acropora species - located in upper 3rd of tank?

parameters on 75 are

Temp - 26C
PH 8.2
Salinity - 1.026
Amonia - 0
Nitrite - 0
Nitrate - (Azoo brand test kit - less than 10ppm
Phospate - Tetra test Kit - less than 1ppm - water stays clear! no traces of blue
Calcium - not tested at present - but will test using the Tropic marin kit which I can get here

20% water change every 2 weeks using Instant Ocean reef mix
Lights - 12 hour days, 10 hour full 6 tubes - last 2 hours only 1 white and 1 blue

hope information given is adequate?

Thanks for reading

Steve

 

Id say your lighting is adequate. ~480W (~6.5W/Gal), and since it's pretty high up in the tank it should work. Im no expert on SPS's though, so maybe someone else can give you an experienced answer...