Will all of these corals fit into my custom 183 gal tank?

[Zionas]

Unfortunately I’m still trapped abroad and unable to go home and start my tank, and the wait is really taking an emotional toll on me as this has been a dream of mine since childhood. My journey so far has evolved from knowing absolutely nothing, to deciding between a FOWLR or a reef tank, to a softies only tank, and now I’ve decided to go with a mixed reef with a 50/50 split between softies and LPS. My stocking list for fish is more or less finalized.

My tank’s dimensions are 1.8m x 0.7m x 0.55m, or 6 foot by 2.3 foot by 1.8 foot, which gives me a total water volume of 183 gallons.

I’ve made a comprehensive list, as of literally half an hour ago, on all the corals I want for this tank. However, I don’t know if these will be too many to go into a tank of my size, what order I should put them in, whether and LPS can go in very early, and whether there will be compatibility / spacing issues.

Softies:

1. Actinodiscus Mushroom

2. Rhodactis Mushroom

3. Ricordea Mushroom

4. Cabbage Leather

5. Finger Leather

6. Toadstool Leather

7. Devil’s Hand Leather

8. GSP (isolated near a corner)

9. Pulsing Xenia (isolated near another corner)

10. Button Polyps

11. Colt Coral (Cladiella)

12. Chili Coral (Nephtea)

*Maybe Zoas and Palys too but worried about their toxins.



LPS Corals:

1. Duncan Coral

2. Bubble Coral

3. Torch Coral

4. Hammer Coral

5. Frogspawn Coral

6. Acan Coral

7. Trumpet Coral

8. Favites Brain Coral

9. Candy Cane Coral

10. Lobophyllia Brain Coral

11. Disk Coral

12. Blastomussa Brain Coral


Are any of these species hard to maintain and not for beginners?

Would love to hear what all of you think of my plan. Thanks!

 

[Dragon52]

#reefsquad

 

[Billldg]

My best advice would be, remember they grow out. As they grow they take up space. I would look at the list and number it from must haves to wants and add them to the tank from must haves to wants. You wouldn't want to add them all at once, so you will have time to see what space you have to work with. All of those are a little more forgiving, meaning that they like higher nitrates and phosphates.

 

[saltyhog]

Agree with @Billldg completely. I do think you may have to reconsider on those leathers...I would probably just choose two of them. They can get really big. I wish I still had the picture of one in a local aquarium shop. It was a toad stool that was taking up about half of a 5 foot tank. Very cool to see one that big but very little room in the tank for anything else.

 

[Flippers4pups]

Don't I know! And they like to split and grow MORE!

 

[Zionas]

Cool! Thanks for the replies guys.

What about the Mushroom Corals, the other kinds of softies and LPS corals? Do any of them also take up a ton of space?

I’ll just pick 2 of my fave Leather corals as suggested.

Maybe start by narrowing my list down to 2/3s out of the 24 species?