Stocking for 60 Gal & Clean Up Crew Advice

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MountainAsh87

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Building my first reef tank - 60 gal, 48.5" x 12.75" x 25" with PFS substrate - and looking at the following for fish:

Blue Reef Chromis (5)
Zebra Barred Dartfish (3)
Royal Gramma Basslet (1)
Banggai Cardinalfish (3)

With one each of the following coral:

Colony Polyp, Orange/Green
Trumpet Coral
Brain Coral, Favites
Lavender Mushroom
Plate Coral, Short Tentacle
Toadstool Mushroom Leather Coral

Does this seem reasonable? Too much? Room for anything else?

Also, I have no idea what to do for a cleanup crew for this setup. :/

Any advice / help would be appreciated.
 
Stocking for 60 Gal & Clean Up Crew Advice

I'd cut one of the schools of fish and there's a lot more room for coral imo. I probably have over 40 different species in my tank and it's only a 40.
 
Maybe cut out the Banggai Cardinalfish and add one Firefish?

I'd also love to have:

Birdsnest coral
Cauliflower Colt Coral
Thick Finger Leather Coral
 
That's probably fine. All those corals are pretty easy but the birdsnest which is sps. Not really hard but needs more light and flow than the others
 
Not really hard but needs more light and flow than the others

I've got a solid light, so I should be covered for light levels, but I don't want to bleach out the other stuff just to get the birdnest enough light. :/ Similar concerns with flow. I can get the needed flow, but I don't want to create too much flow for the rest of the tank.

New proposed stocking list:

Blue Reef Chromis (5)
Zebra Barred Dartfish (3)
Royal Gramma Basslet (1)
Firefish (1)
Mandarin Goby (1) (?)
 
Skip the mandarin and your good, just so hard to meet their dietary needs.

Coral placement solves this problem most of the time.
 
Gotta have a serpent star :). And scrimps which aren't really cuc but they eat leftovers.

As far as hermits and snails I'd get a bunch of cerith and nassarius snails. I've had good luck with nerites as well. Hermits are fine but they can knock stuff and kill snails.
 
I was kinda thinking a brittle sea star, cerith snails, nassarius snails, and some peppermint shrimp. :) Not sure on numbers for the snails & shrimp, though.
 
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