Reef tank stocking for a 150

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I wanted to get some opinions on my stocking options for my future 150 gallon reef. I plan on adding these fish over about a 18 month timeline.
1 Golden spotted rabbit fish
1 Crosshatch trigger
1 Blue throat trigger
1 Powder brown tang
1 Blonde naso tang
1 Harlequin tusk Australian
1 Golden moray eel
1 Green mandarin
1 pair of leopard wrasses
1 pair of black and white clown fish
1 blue dot jawfish
 
Can't be done IMO. Way to many BIG fish. These aren't fresh water fish, they need LOTS of space and CLEAN water, mix coral into the equation and you end up with needing PERFECT water... I honnestly cant see it being done in that tank size... my stocking list plans for my future 1000 gallon has about that many fish that size... and a dozen or so smally/tiny ones... and thats 10x as much tank (well 6.6666x but hardly the point...). The other problem is a good number of those fish are very territorial, so they will fight to compete for food/space. Also as Otherone said, some of those fish are to big for that tank, Naso min recomended is 180... but I wouldn't put one in anything less then an 8' long tank, crosshatch also 180. I hate being the bearer of bad news... sorry.
 
revised list
1 Blue throat trigger
1 red tail trigger
1 Powder brown tang
1 Achilles tang
1 Harlequin tusk Australian
1 Golden moray eel
 
Triggers + eels no good for stoney corals they sharpen their teeth on them thus killing the corals - tank still too small for a Tusk or Achilles this won't change by adding or subtracting livestock.

The mandarian, clowns, wrasses and jawfish are better suited for a reef although the jawfish will be a pain in the neck with all it's excavating and a mandrain is pretty demanding in it's need for you to harvest copepods, esp since the wrasses will wipe any in tank colonies of copepods out.
 
revised again
blue throat trigger
powder brown tang
mimic eibli tang
mimic lemon tang
banana eel
2 blotched anithas
 
That looks better tangs can be a pain especially powders. If they get aggressive they create problems

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Updated again
blue throat trigger-Male
2 Crosshatch triggers 1 male 1 female
paired clown fish
mimic lemon tang
banana eel
3-5 lyretail anithas
 
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