What lighting?

Just recently bought a 46 gallon bow front from someone and now I have it all set up and everything is looking great!

The lighting on the tank is a tad bit older and I need to make a decision on where to go from here. I currently have a Coralife 36" Power compact with a 96w 10000k bulb and a 96w actinic 03 bulb and 2-3/4w LED lunars.

The bulbs on the current fixture definitely need replaced. OR I thought about looking into either T5 lighting or an LED fixture if the price for my tank would not be too expensive. Can anyone give me an estimate on the prices for each of these routes and what I need to be looking at?

My goal is to be able to keep an anemone, some soft coral and LPS, and fish.

 

This will greatly depend on what you are wanting to keep in your tank. I would personnally go with T5 lighting or LED myself. I don't know what your budget is, but this is probably what I will with for now for T5 lighting myself (36" 156W (4x 39W) T5 HO Light Fixture Extendable Series) and BoostLED is a sponsor on here that has some good products as well.

 

your budget will dictate t5 or LED fixture unless you DIY.

 

To keep nems, softies and LPS, T5s will be more than sufficient. You definitely want to dump the PC; that's old technology, and today the bulbs are expensive, there's not much of a selection, and they only last about half as long as T5s.