New member looking for advice

I have a 20 gallon s/w tank with LR and LS which has a Blue Damsel, an ocellaris clown fish, green bubble tip anemone, emerald crab, cleaner shrimp, turbo snail, and assorted hermit crabs.

I also have a 5 gallon s/w tank run on a 20 gallon filter which has a few things i have collected locally from the Long Island Sound. It contains some very small muscles, a few different kinds of small snails (about 15-20 or so), 6 small hermit crabs, a channeled whelk snail (a little under an inch long, i plan on releasing it once it matures a bit), some silversides (spearing, minnow or whatever it is called locally around you), a couple different seaweeds, and a recently hatched horseshoe crab about the size of my thumbnail (plans to release once it matures a bit). The container i have set up has a large surface area its about 7 inches tall and then 2 foot by 2 foot roughly, it is filled with stuff from the sound (which is just behind my house) including 3 inches of sand/mud i collected from the beach behind my house at low tide and have filled it with water from the sound (i strained it through a clothe to get the large particulate out of it to make it clearer) with one corner filled with some rock also collected from the water behind my house. The setup is room temperature which is roughly the same temperature as the water near me +/- a couple degrees depending on the day. I supplement the feeding by changing a little bit of the water straight from the sound each day to add some micro organisms (plankton etc) as well as feed them some chopped up muscles and shrimp. Everything is doing fairly well and look happy/healthy. The setup almost matches their exact environment behind my house. I joined to see if anyone has any advice on how to suplement the tank better and maybe supplement the diets of the aforementioned critters if I am not doing so already.

 

Welcome to 3reef

Sounds like you have a pretty decent set up on the 5 gallon for a natural style tank. I would feed standard frozen for for carnivores to give them something extra and special.

 

I'm completely guessing here but it seems like your system is probably getting a better variety and quality of food than most of ours.

Welcome to 3reef!

 

Hello and welcome to 3reef

 

would love to see some pics..

 

Hi and Welcome to 3 reef

+ 1 on pictures

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Welcome to 3reef.

 

welcome to 3reef were pic junkies

 

pictures soon, the horshoe crab seems to be doing well...he just wen through his first molt and i was able to grab his old shell, its out drying in the sun right now to hopefully keep as a decoration

 

Sounds like a Sweet setup and welcome to 3reef