Stocking help

ALright I have pretty much settled on a stocking list of

Misbarred osc. (currently have)
royal gramma
mccoskers flasher wrasse
bangai cardinal( not 100% firm on this one)
1 skunk cleaner
5 nassarius sandsifter snails( have 3)
4 turbo snails (have 2)
5 red tipped hermits (have 2)

The ones I currently have are from my old 30 gal. The new one is a 55. I was just wondering if they would all work together and what order I should introduce them.

 

Of course I would go with the clean up crew first, I think you can afford more than that, but that's just my opinion. It all depends on how much sand and rock you have in the tank. The more rock you have, the more surface area you have, and the more sand, the less water you have, but you also have more denitrifying bacteria with the sand and rock. You want to have critters scouring all over these items keeping them free of nuisance algae, but too many and you'll end up loosing some from eating themselves out.

As for the fish line-up, I can't really help you there as I'm also learning, I hope someone chimes in for ya. Good luck with the new tank and Grats.

 

I have about 45 pounds of lr in there right now. I'm gonna add more of the cleaning crew today and see if I can get a response. I'm also running a canister filter with activated carbon atm as well.

 

sounds good. the fish(including the cardinal) will work in a 55g

 

I decided to swap it out with a purple psuedochromis. When I went to pick up my cleaner crew I saw one and it was rather drab looking. Unless it was a different cardinal that looked similar. I'll just leave that one off until I decide to upgrade at some point.