Iam guessing you know you need a heater. As for coral you will want a protein skimmer, its not needed for fish only tanks but reef tanks its reccomended
Live baby brine is basically a pod. When u look at say a pod vs a brine the adult shrimp is huge lol. However when training they generally eat brine rt away. It must resemble amphapods, something else people dont realize mandys eat.
I agree no for sure hosting. But frog, mushrooms are fairly easy.
Fish, not all of these lol fire fish, royal gramma, clown goby, yellow watchman goby, dwarf angel, lawnmower blenny, possum wrasse, mandarin
The one fish u can not keep w green mandarins is a spotted mandarin. There more aggressive. My male chased my female the day I added her, not since. Now my male scooter will chase the female scooter on and off. Fine w mandarin tho. Another female idk have never tried. Since ur dedicated to...