50g NEW setup

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Hello all,

I am fairly new to the hobby. This is my first large tank, I kept a 10g nano with 2O.Clownfish for nearly a year, now it is time to keep them in a larger system.

This tank was started in late May 2014 by placing the 40lb of Dry Rock in a dark bin to "bake" them. They baked for 2 months. After that, the tank was setup and the rocks where in there for a week. However right when the tank's parameters where perfect, I get a call from my landlady "We are selling the house, you have 60 days to move":uhoh3:
So nothing else was purchased.
2 months went by (making it a total of 4 months+change) with the rocks and sand in the aquarium, everything running.

Now the tanks (10+50) are sitting in their new home!!:bounce3:

So far, because of the unexpected moving expenses, only one Kessil LED has been placed on the display, which is very obvious in the pictures. The skimmer needs to be raised an inch, and the light in the refugium needs to be installed as well as the cooling fans.

In the 10g there have been 2 o.clownfish, 1 Large Mexican Turbo Snail, 2 Blue hermit crabs, which will all be transferred to the 50g.
At this point the Wish list of LiveStock is this:

2 Kaudern Cardinal
1 Starry Blenny
1 Wheeler Goby
1 Randal Pistol Shrimp
1 Mandarin Dragonet (w/ separate 10g pod farm to refill refugium)
1 Peppermint Shrimp
1 Cleaner Shrimp
3 BT Anemones

Maybe:
3 McCosker Flasher Wrasse
or
1 Firefish
or
2 White Banded Possum Wrasse

This is what she looks like at the first 15 days of being installed.

Any advice, help, inspiration, knowledge & insight you can provide is most welcomed.

Thanks for reading!

 

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Update 1

Update 1

Here are the updates of the tank, with the addition of the first batch of livestock, amongst which is a Helfrichi Firefish and a Pistol Shrimp.

you can follow this photo album as well

 

[gone fishin]

I really like your rock work. Looks like things are progressing nicely from your 2 posts.

Just one note you may want to reconsider the Mandarin or at least wait quite awhile to get a robust pod population.

At the top of the forum is a check here before you buy thread. Steve is extremely knowledgeable with livestock. You can post your stocking list there and he will get back to you pretty quick. He has saved me a few times from a bad purchase. Good luck.

 

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I really like your rock work. Looks like things are progressing nicely from your 2 posts.

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Good luck.

Thanks! My first attempts were horrible so I had to try something else. It took me convincing my wife to stop what she was doing (which was near impossible! LOL ...we were in the middle of unpacking), sitting her down with a glass of wine so she could give me her artistic eye on the landscape as she used me as a robot to place the rocks to her liking. She did pretty good, eh?!