Fish Compatibility Question

[Hamsnacks]

Hello!
I think I have all the equipment needed now to start assembling my tank and then I will be filling it up with established live rock, sand and sump media from a different tank.
Just wanted to make sure my list of fish we're going to be compatible with each other and were a good fit with one another.
The fish I will be getting from a tank shutdown next week are the following:

Dwarf Zebra Lionfish
Foxface Rabbitfish
Brown Tang
Yellow Tang
Engineer Goby
2 x Blue Damsels
Chocolate Chip Starfish.

The fish I hope to have in the future:

2 Pairs of Clownfish
Kaudern's Cardinalfish
Bicolor Dottyback
Blue Tang
Goby Watchman
Blood Fire Red Shrimp
Scarlet skunk cleaner shrimp
And maybe some random smaller crabs here and there.

Wondering if any of the tank shutdown fish will be an issue with any of the fish I wish to have sometime in the future?
Will the shrimp get eaten?
I read online that the Chocolate Chip Starfish will eat coral, is that correct?

Also any chance there's smaller type of eel that wouldn't eat the smaller fish?

Thank you in advance and apologies for the long post.

 

[Jon Fishman]

How big of a tank?

The damsels will be the first Lion-food I’d guess

And that star will eat your coral I believe

 

[Wolf89]

The lionfish will eat shrimp, clowns, gobies, cardinals, dottybacks, damsels

A chocolate chip star will eat coral.

If you want a lionfish and eel, might as well go all out with a predator tank, or say bye to all fish smaller than 3 inches

 

[Hemmdog]

What are the dimensions of the tank? That’s a lot of tangs.
I wouldn’t do the lion fish.

 

[Hamsnacks]

The lionfish will eat shrimp, clowns, gobies, cardinals, dottybacks, damsels

A chocolate chip star will eat coral.

If you want a lionfish and eel, might as well go all out with a predator tank, or say btw to all fish smaller than 3 inches

Thank you for the quick response! I guess the Lionfish will have to be sold then. That's a shame, I never planned on owing one but it came with the package, was kind of excited for it.
I don't plan on buying any fish anytime soon so I may keep it until I am ready to introduce new fish.
Starfish will definitely have to go haha, amazing looking creature though that's for sure, not all starfish eat coral correct?

 

[Hamsnacks]

What are the dimensions of the tank? That’s a lot of tangs.
I wouldn’t do the lion fish.

72" Wide x 30" Deep x 24" High
225 Gallon with a 90 Gallon Sump.
What do you think?

 

[Wolf89]

Thank you for the quick response! I guess the Lionfish will have to be sold then. That's a shame, I never planned on owing one but it came with the package, was kind of excited for it.
I don't plan on buying any fish anytime soon so I may keep it until I am ready to introduce new fish.
Starfish will definitely have to go haha, amazing looking creature though that's for sure, not all starfish eat coral correct?

most don't
No matter what anyone at your lfs tells you, unless you have 300+ lbs of sand, do NOT get a sand sifting starfish

 

[Hamsnacks]

most don't
No matter what anyone at your lfs tells you, unless you have 300+ lbs of sand, do NOT get a sand sifting starfish

Haha I feel like there is a story behind this. But duly noted, I appreciate the heads up!

 

[Wolf89]

Haha I feel like there is a story behind this. But duly noted, I appreciate the heads up!

yeah, long story short one killed my mandarin by sucking every bit of life out of the sand bed. It was crawling with pods before that thing

 

[Hemmdog]

72" Wide x 30" Deep x 24" High
225 Gallon with a 90 Gallon Sump.
What do you think?

Very nice. That’s a great sized tank. Green light for tangs haha.

 

[Hamsnacks]

How big of a tank?

The damsels will be the first Lion-food I’d guess

And that star will eat your coral I believe

Sorry I missed your response! Thank you.
Yeah weird, I guess he was saying the Lionfish keeps to itself, but I think he's going to have to go either way.

Very nice. That’s a great sized tank. Green light for tangs haha.

Perfect! Haha I was nervous for a bit there.

 

[GoldeneyeRet]

What kind of damsels? They may get aggressive and.the dottyback will get aggressive.

 

[Hamsnacks]

What kind of damsels? They may get aggressive and.the dottyback will get aggressive.

He just told me Blue Damsels

I did not realize those little Dottybacks were considered semi aggressive, will need to maybe find someone else then.
Don't want to have to stress over fish getting eaten or killed.