Keep the fish out of your Man Made Live Rock tank for at least 1 year and when you do add them, do it slowly.  Take months not weeks.  Decide what creatures you want to keep prior to purchasing your hardware.  Get hardware that matches the needs of the animals you wish to keep not the other way around.  Be prepared to make compromises and understand that you cannot have everything in one tank.  Even Noah would have issues trying to put two of everything in any sized tank.  Look at other tanks, as many as you can.  Note what looks to be doing best, what seems to go together, what hardware are they using to support this life, etc..  Do not try to make fast changes in your tank, all hell will generally break out if you do.  Pay close attention to your water parameters in this order, Temperature, Specific Gravity, Alkalinity, Calcium, Nitrate, Ph, and then all the others that you may wish to monitor.

    Make sure your top off water is of good quality that is tested on at least a monthly basis.  If your running a skimmer, and I hope you will be, get the best one you can afford and make sure it is running at peak performance.  You do not need a whole bunch of light to get most things growing.  But, if your planning on a lighting upgrade at a future date, beware that your tank will take a dramatic change, maybe for the worse for awhile.  Some things may die, others may come to life, but any changes that you make to an established tank are dramatic and traumatic for it.

    Above all, please do not use my website as the only foundation of your knowledge.  While I have done my best to make sure it is accurate.  This accuracy is from my experience and point of view which is not always scientific fact.  Often the things I say or the way I put them irritate long standing members of the reefing community.  I do not do this out of intention, I'm just expressing myself and my ideas.  Just know that many of these ideas are still a long way from the mainstream.