Fish advice

So I am planning on getting my new tank up and running tomorrow.  I assume that once my various parameters are within appropriate levels it is safe to begin to add some life to the tank.  I have a 55g tank with a 55g sump/refugium and a 4 x 54 watt T5 light fixture.  Following are a list of the fish I am interested in.  I do plan to get some invertabrates amd coral as well.  Let me know thoughts on these fish, how well they would do together, order I should plan on getting them into my tank, if my tank is too small for any of these...any help is appreciated as this is my first time involved with SW fish.

If a fair amount of live stuff is used, parameters then become overrated. Alk and Ca are typically fine for the first few months of a tanks existence. Some salts do not have enough Alkalinity so checking that is a good idea. The worry about N compounds is not a big deal if a good amount of macroalgae is used from the start.

Here are my suggestions in order:

Don't forget the snails, added within days and along the way, depending on how much LR is added from the LFS or other tanks. Be sure to move LR submerged if possible and turn, twist and shake the air bubbles out of ALL rock

Mated true perc hosting clownsfish (with anemone) if you set it up with all the live components as outlined in the "affordable reef" thread these can be added within a week, but buy 3 because one is bound to die as two pair up

Edited by Mark Peterson - August 12 2010 at 5:47pm

I would say the best way is to play it by ear. Dont add ANYTHING until your cycle has finished. I agree w/ Mark about the mandarin, wait until you have a good population of bugs, and even then it's sketchy. As for the mystery wrasse it will eat bugs, but will also eat prepared foods. Fairy wrasses once used to a feeding schedule won't even try looking for bugs. You can also keep fairy wrasses and a mystery wrasse together. What lighting are you going to run? If you're planning on running PC's you'll only be able to keep a deresa clam. SPS you will really need to get you tank mature, and stable for them to survive. Many of them will RTN with fluctuations in water parameters. As for the clowns, you can buy just 2 and they will pair up. It works for me every time, and that way you avoid killing fish unnecessarily. Coral Beauty or Flam angel would be fine to add in the first phases of stocking. They take to prepared food easily so algae in this particular circumstance is over rated. I will definitely say don't by a Wrasse, or Jawfish until you have some sort of mesh cover for the tank. Otherwise you should expect fish jerky.