What order should these fish go in?

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So the new tank is cycled and ready to go (48x24x24x 120 gallon). Tell me what you think of my fish list and what order should they be added in. First I will be transferring the fish from my 50 gallon, 2 clowns, yellow tang, flame hawk, mandarin goby, and a diamond goby.
These are the fish I'm looking to add,
Mystery wrasse

Cleaner wrasse

Kole yellow eye tang

Powder blue or powder brown (yes I know they are ich magnets but I want to try)

Purple tang

Sailfin tang

Blue dot jaw fish

Midas Benny

3 anthias

Possibly a naso tang, or is a 120 too small?
 
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Add least aggressive to aggressive, then by size. Think your only problem are the tangs, maybe PT or PBT last
 
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Purple should be last. Or the PBT. Two regular sized tangs and a smaller tang is plenty for a 120. The rest of the fish you named have a smaller bioload footprint. But if you have a good fuge and critters and mechanical devices to make the footprint no existent then "Tangaway" Naso can be traded to a reefer when large but I think it's not for anything under a 6'+ tank. In my 225 my old one looked bored. Meanwhile the purple and PBT looked at home. Anthias are tricky especially if you do vacations. But there are generic types that are pretty easy to get on pellets. Never get the purple queens. Leased fish the ole guys call em
 

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120 is not even close to what a naso tang needs. I had a pair of Naso tangs in a 750 and it was almost not enough room. The male was over 24" long. Also trying to do a sail fin/purple /yellow combo in that tank will not end well. I hate to be the tang police, but that is way too many tangs in a tank that small especially one that is only 4' long. Also why a cleaner wrasse? Why not a neon cleaner goby or sharknose goby instead? They groom fish and eat frozen/ dry food easily. Oh and you can get them captive bred so even better.
 

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Oh and another note. Blue spot jawfish are not tropical fish. They are from the sub-tropic and long term success means 59-69 degree water. They come from the sea of cortez( 90% of the sea IS NOT IN THE TROPICS) Yet another fish that should not be in this hobby........
 

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