Lol---we wish money were no object.
You can make some lfs very happy.
If I were doing it with no budget and enough room in the house, I'd get a 200g 25" deep reef-ready tank (reef-ready: drilled for proper piping and hoses) with a nice looking stand, mh lighting adequately shielded by a "fake" canopy (an extension of the rim upward to keep the light from blinding people), 275 lbs of good live rock, medium aragonite sand, sump piped to the basement for noise abatement (if possible): 60 gallon sump, 30 of it refugium (planted tank), and a really killer skimmer, with a calcium reactor for corals plumbed to the sump, wherever it lands.
That rig would probably cost you, oh, 10,000 if you bought everything new. Happy fish store. Seriously, patronize a real reef shop if you at all have the choice: mine is sterling, and has been there for me when I have had a house move, needed set-up advice, or needed a special piece of plumbing gear, the small items of which they have graciously just given to me. They buy frags of my corals and my refugium weed when it exceeds my capacity, and they are honest as the day is long. If you have one of those types near you, they are pure gold, and you should patronize them above all else.
Otherwise there is the internet.
And RC. You will get a lot of opinions, but ultimately just let us hash it out and it will ultimately become clear who really knows and who's guessing with really good intentions.
We'll be happy to help.
I believe there is one angel species that eats algae and therefore is reef safe, but I am not sure of this. There is one butterfly fish that eats only clams...(the pyramid) and is therefore reefsafe if you don't have a clam. It runs like that. And not all angels like all types of coral. Some seem fairly safe with soft coral, but I would not put a piece of branching stony near them on a bet.
Read the two threads marked with an *, at the top of this message list. That is the condensed wisdom from a gazillion posts of newbies wanting help with setup, and you can learn thousands of dollars worth of info there, for free.
