[boombadan]

I have just purchased a 29 gallon tank and am wondering how many snails, hermit crabs, shrimp and starfish i should get. Also is it worth getting a longspine black urchin? How about a lettuce sea slug?

[ACE]

What type of fish are you putting in it some fish like the snowflake eel eat crustaceans???
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[boombadan]

i have decided not to get a snowflake eel and get a tang, wrasse, and clown. Later maby a dragonet..

[ACE]

I have been told 1 tank cleaner per gal as for how many snails/hermits it depends on
how much sand surface you have hermit's like sand and live rock, snails I don't know much about I have hermits!!!
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[boombadan]

yeh i will probly get a few snail, hermit crab, and shrimp. Starfish i will probly not be purchasing many of since they are more expensive, maby 1 or 2. One urchine and maby a sea slug depending how much it is needed down the road.
thankks

[cplklegg]

Think about and read up on the starfish. many of them are carnivores that will eat your fish or other inverts at night and the "sand sifting stars" tend to slowly starve over time as there is not enough microfauna to sustain them(and you don't want to lose these microfauna--helps keep your live sand live) Now Serpent/Brittle stars eat detritus from all the nooks and crannies in your tank and are what I would get instead.

[boombadan]

yeh i will probly get a serpent one, those are cool

[inuyasha_lover_21]

Brittles are carnivores. Be careful with them. I am too going to get a serpent when my tank is established

[boombadan]

yeh they are sooo cool looking

[inuyasha_lover_21]

yeah they are! I want to get the ones with swirls for there design pattern

[boombadan]

Deffinatly im probly gonna get one of those too 8})