I'm not sure about some of your fish in the list. Just thought I'd share my experience with a couple that I own.
I have a yellow watchman goby, he's cool but extremely shy and I eventually had to take him out of the main display and put him into a cube because he was constantly being harassed by a starry blenny. I tried introducing him to a pistol shrimp, but I've never seen them together, but I'm still hoping they'll grow to like one another in the cube.
I've also got a flame angel and clowns. The flame is nice, good colour, very active fish. But she doesn't like my purple fire fish and is constantly chasing it back into the rocks. So I almost NEVER see the fire fish. It's the one fish I don't think I'd purchase again.
I love mandarins, but you're right, wait until you have a great pod population and if possible add a refugium and pod piles in your tank to give them somewhere to live and breed without being wiped out by the mandy.
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