Hello!
I have been planning my saltwater tank and would like your opinions on it. I have several points that I’d like to cover. Any information you can offer, I would be grateful for. If you could bear with me while I cover the specifications of my tank. And the population which I plan to place in it.

Firstly, the tank… a 125 gallon tank. 72" x 18" x 22"(L,W,H) It will have a glass top with two fluorescent strip lights. It will have an overflow, and a mega-flow sump filter. Also I will add a Cora-life Super Skimmer Needle Wheel Protein Skimmer and two power heads. Along with that I will also add more filtration with a Marine-land Emperor 280 Filter System. That will do for the hardware.

I will add 120-140 lbs of live sand from the south pacific. In addition I will have 120-140 lbs of live rock.

I will also opt for some live soft corals, polyps and mushrooms. Of these corals, they compose of 3 Assorted Mushroom Corals 3-5", 2 Assorted Leather Coral 3-5" and 3 Green Metallic Star Polyps 3-5". Also to be bought are combination of various soft, polyp, and mushroom corals. In addition to those I may decide to add some more mushroom corals. the reason for the vagueness in some of them is because they will be bought in a package deal so I won’t know exactly what I will get.

Now to the little critters:
6 Cerith snails
6 Nerite snails
1 Sand Sifting Starfish
1 Cleaner Shrimp
3 Blue Leg Hermits
3 Red Leg Hermits
My concern about the little critters is that they feed on detritus. I don’t know how I can keep them fed and still run a protein skimmer. Maybe get a smaller protein skimmer?

Moving on to the fish…
1 Yellow Tang
3 Green Chromis
1 Clownfish
Possibly: 1 Carpenter Flasher Wrasse and/or 1 Filemented Flasher Wrasse and/or 1 McCoser Wrasse.

Now some of my questions….
Would you change my fish arrangement? What wrasse would you get? Do you know how I could keep my crabs and such fed? Would my corals need better lighting? They are begginer coral and only really need photosynthetic food. But not sure what lighting I should have. You think my equipment set up is good? Is the 125 too small for everything I want? Is it too small to have a certain fish?

Anything you could help me with is greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
<3 Curious Aquarist
P.S. I want to be as well planned as possible. But I’d like to know what you think. Please avoid posting many links as your only answer.

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