Ok, I wholeheartedly admit that i jumped into this too big too quick and under some poor advice. I bought a 37 gallon eclipse tank, don't know anything about it - if you have information on filters or lighting please help me. I haven't done anything to it - no new lights or new filters and it sounds like other people have added things to there tanks, should I?
Added $500 worth of live rock, and a bunch of live sand on the bottom was that good, bad, dunno? Let tank sit for a while (about a month), added 1 dwarf lion fish, 1 panther grouper, 1 flame angel, 1 bicolor angel, 1 giant red knobbed starfish, and 1 very large hermit crab. Everything fine for about 3 weeks - month. Then SLAM! Last two days, come home twice and each time the crab devours an angel fish. Took him out, now lion fish has scrapes on his sides and swims in circles and runs into things.
How often should i be feeding - I do 1 block of frozen "Prime Reef" every other day.
Sorry so many questions but I don't like seeing fish die obviously and I kept asking questions to my local fish store and they seem to be full of you know what. They told me the hermit crab would not attack anything and he would just sift through the sand. The damn things looks like BamBam slamming the giant starfish around if it goes to low on the aquarium.
Should I convert this to be a reef tank so I don't have to worry about things eating each other so much? And finally, is there any way the live rock can be eaten too much because though there are still many live things on the rock (snails, stringy things, little urchins and tiny crabs, and so on) there seems to be far less than there was and one rock has even began turning bleach white in patches. Thank you very much for the patience, as I have lost much of mine.
Added $500 worth of live rock, and a bunch of live sand on the bottom was that good, bad, dunno? Let tank sit for a while (about a month), added 1 dwarf lion fish, 1 panther grouper, 1 flame angel, 1 bicolor angel, 1 giant red knobbed starfish, and 1 very large hermit crab. Everything fine for about 3 weeks - month. Then SLAM! Last two days, come home twice and each time the crab devours an angel fish. Took him out, now lion fish has scrapes on his sides and swims in circles and runs into things.
How often should i be feeding - I do 1 block of frozen "Prime Reef" every other day.
Sorry so many questions but I don't like seeing fish die obviously and I kept asking questions to my local fish store and they seem to be full of you know what. They told me the hermit crab would not attack anything and he would just sift through the sand. The damn things looks like BamBam slamming the giant starfish around if it goes to low on the aquarium.
Should I convert this to be a reef tank so I don't have to worry about things eating each other so much? And finally, is there any way the live rock can be eaten too much because though there are still many live things on the rock (snails, stringy things, little urchins and tiny crabs, and so on) there seems to be far less than there was and one rock has even began turning bleach white in patches. Thank you very much for the patience, as I have lost much of mine.