can i add
2 clownfish
1 mandarin
1 yellow tang
1 blue damsel
1 cardinal
1 flamed hawkfish
2 cleaner shrimp
2 yellow tipped damsels
1 surgeon
and 1 trigger fish?
Get rid of the mandarin, (Will not live without a LARGE population of reproducing copepods, these are all they eat, unless the mandarin is aquacultured and if it is then look to spend over $ 80 on the fish alone if you can find it. If a mandarin isn't aquacultured don't put in a tank under 100 gallons with at least a 30 gallon fuge seeded with pods at least 1 year in advance of the mandarin addition. Otherwise it will slowly starve . Those people who say "But I have kept one in a 30 gallon for a year", are the people's whose mandarin will be dead before it ever see's another one.) No yellow tang, don't add it. Also get rid of the trigger. There are quite a few species of damsels in your tank; The two clowns (clownfish are damsels), a blue damsel, and 2 yellow tipped damsels. Don't be surprised if there is aggression there even though your tank is 55 gallons. In the saltwater world thats not a very large volume of water. In saltwater reefing 125 gallons is consider medium sized. Also you if you have anemones in your tank and they are little brown ones, these are called apstasia and they are NOT GOOD. Nuke em with apstasia x, joes juice, or look at adding 4 or 5 peppermint shrimp to your stocking list to eat them. They are a nuisance and not something you want in your tank as the larger ones will kill fish on occassion. 1 cardinal? A pajama or a bangai or what? Cardinals are passive fish and prefer schools, also they will most likely be picked on by your damsels as they will not defend themselves under any circumstance. Before you continue any further with trying to stock your tank you need to set down and do some research. You have 1 inch of adult fish per 5 gallons of water in a saltwater tank, therefore you have enough room for roughly 11 inches of adult fish. This is not near as much as you would think. If you want to know how you see these tanks filled to the brim with fish, the main tank, such as a 125 gallon reef is plumbed into a 50 gallon sump and a 75 gallon refugium. therefore the total water volume is 250 gallons . You just dont see the other 125, its hidden in a seperate room or under the tank in the stand. Dealing with a standard tank with no refugium or sump (assuming you don't have one of these) your choices are limited as to the water strictly in the main tank, because this is all you have to work with.
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That Would be way over stocked. The tank is also prolly to small for some fish like the tang which most tangs need tanks well over 100 gallons. You should go with 3-4 small fish no more than 6 inch as adults. Might be ok if you introduce all your fish at the same time but most likely, any damsels you get will kill any other fish you get.
The biggest problem with this sounds to be that you said this is a new tank that has been cycled for only 5 weeks and has Anemones in it? Anemone can very seldon survive in a new tank and atleast a 6 month old tank to a year is recommended.
I know that it sucks to have to wait before adding fish, but I got excited and added fish within 5-7 weeks and they died in just a couple of hours. Ph is not the only water level that needs to be good. The ammonia, salinity, and nitrogen levels are the other three that will kill fish easily.
If you want algae to grow thick, I would advise you to not get the surgeon, trigger, or tang. But I am not a fan of thick algae, but I know some people are. I wouldn't add all this fish at once . I used to go get about 10 fish at a time, but they would die fast and only a few would live. I now get one or two and then they almost always live. Get the damsels to check as to whether the aquarium is good enough for fish. Damsels are hardy and are good for testing aquariums. If they die, check the water levels wait another 2 weeks to a month and try it again. If 1 just dies, it might be a fish that wasn't meant to live. If you want your shrimp to live then I suggest to slow down on the algae eating fish. The fish will eat all the algae for the shrimp.
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55 gallons isn't that big
I would cut down a bit ..
