Feeding hermits & smails

Got some hermits & snails in my setup...Do I need to feed them anything...or is whatever in the live sand enuf?

They will eat what ever they find in the LR/LS and any food that the fish do not eat

Okay, thanks Garrett. I don't have any fish yet, so haven't fed anything. I think the sand had a ton of junk in it.

Were did you get the sand?

Got it from Scott at All Aquatic Pets. He is closing his Elk River store location and going back home.

Oh did you get live rock as well?

No, I bought the live rock, I think, sometime in July/August and it had been stewing in garbage can with heater and airstones since. Mom passed away in mid-August, so everything got put on hold.

thats right you told us that.

If you aren't feeding anything I would drop in some pellets every other day or so. The snails will eat algea, if they run out they will die and if the hermits aren't fed they may start snacking on the snails. You can clip some seaweed sheets in there too.

Good idea with the seaweed. I have some that i used to give to my freshwater fish. I am assuming that both hermits and snails will eat it, correct?

everything doing alright? How is the sand bed ? need more sand for a dsb? pics? sorry about the questions lol

Hi Karl,
I think all is going okay. Put rocks in 2 weeks ago with a little sand, then got the rest of the sand put in on the 15/16th. OMG, what a mess. Sand wz so dirty. couldn't see any of the rocks in the tank to know where I wz placing sand. Then, all the sand dust settled onto rocks. Couldn't leave it that way, so had to move and readajust rocks. thought at that time I'd do PVC riser pipe to elevate rocks, but really hard to get stability with them, so used a couple & gave up for time being. Dust finally settled in display mid week. The sump is still cloudy if I disturb the pump or the rocks in there. Got some hermits and nas. snails when I got the rock. They seem to be doing okay. May try to do a H2O chg. this week. Dont know if I should or not. Haven't tested other than salinity with refract., What is the point right now? Gotta get an ammonia and nitrate test kit,. I got one for reef tstg, but didn't include the above.
Im not sure how to post picts. Its hard to get good picts. Have to experiment with the camera for exposure etc.

if you take a veggie clip and some purple nori you little cleaners will love it. i feed my tangs(7 yellow and 3 sailfin 2 purple tangs and a blonde naso) in my 125 and all the stuff that gets disslocated from the main bunch will feed your inverts. i have always gone with one blue leg and i astirus snail per gallon.

Thanks Chris, had some green seaweed and the snails liked it. where can i find purple nori? Any in Fargo/Moorhead?
I'd like to increase the cleanup crew, but my tank has only been up and going for about a week so I'd probably be pushing it by adding more at this stage...

you can find it at any petco or the internet. grand forks petco should have it i dont know how far you are from that?

take it slow, nothing good happens quick

You can order the nori pretty cheap online.... Seafishin if you can move the sand out of the way and get the rocks down on the glass you can usually aquascape with pretty good stability ... Turkey basters work well for cleaning off dust debris....

think I may mess again with the aquascaping this weekend. Ive got plenty of rock for now, but it would be better if I could increase the sand bed size by stacking rocks better. As it is now, it might be hard to clean them... Cant decide if I wanna take out the pvc risers. I think its harder to get stability with them, than on the glass bottom...

I tryed using the pvc and it was not very stable. I would do what Karl said if you can move the sand and set your base rocks on the glass and then build from there it will be alot more stable. just for the fact if you have any movement in your sand with the rocks on top of the sand bed it could cause a collapse of the aquascape.

I just stacked my rocks on the sand (I"ve got 3-4 inches of sand) i thought of making some kind of shelf thing to put my rocks on. just havent done it yet and now not sure if i will.

Yeah seafishin if you can move he sand and get the rocks to the bottom you can aquascape with pretty good stability unless you belive in keeping them off the bottom but I've never understood this theory ... A turkey baster works great for cleaning off debris and waste from the rock ....photobucket is a great host ... but no rush on pics lol