New Saltwater Aquarist, lots of questions!

Sounds great minus the nem.
30 lbs of live sand and at least 1 lb of live rock for every gallon.
The serpent shouldn't harm anything. Theyre great scavengers.

 

Well 29 is a little easier like i said previously and provide more space; i think an anemone could live in that? 14 seems pretty small IMO. I'd recommend live sand, and as for live rock get like 1 piece and buy dry base rock; that way the bacteria on the live rock will spread to the base rock. As for the goby and pistol shrimp pair... Just remember that if you do buy a pistol shrimp that you CAN'T get cleaner shrimp, blood red fire shrimp, or peppermint shrimp. It's cuz the pistol will fry their @$$es XD... literally, since its "bullet" that it shoots from its pistol like claws is supposed to be the temperature of the sun or something

 

14g need atleast 1 1/2 lbs of rock per gallon. Get 1-2" of dead sand from ebay or macrorock, NOT the home depot sand. MIn tank for anemone is 30g.

 

so are there any online places (tried and true preferably) to buy live rock, sand, coral and such?

also, any corals I should avoid? and when do i put coral into the tank? and how? directly onto the live rock?

 

theres a man on e bay has really good rating on the live sand it fiji, unsure of the name right now but search fiji live sand on ebay.

 

well usually u wanna light acclimate corals and drip acclimate them too. drip acclimate is when you put the coral in a bucket and start airline tubing and little teeny tiny drops come out of the tubing; thats how they get adjusted to ur water. do that usually for about an hour. when you place the coral in i'd put it in the sand to light acclimate it; basically it adjusts to ur light. over a few weeks raise it to a higher spot or wherever the coral is supposed to go (if its a low light coral and you put it in a high light area the move it away; corals have specific conditions regarding light too. I'd try liveaquaria for livestock and live rock too

 

I buy Dead rock from reefcleaners. For dead sand go to macrorocks, live fijisandman on ebay. You should wait a couple months before adding corals. Seems like your rushing into this to quickly.

 

ahhh thanks blood kip thats the e-bayers name lol

 

His sand is really white.

 

im not rushing, im just curious,

so give the coral a couple months, you all vote no anemone, 1 pound of live rock for every gallon of water, live rock can cycle a tank, serpent star will fit in well, when should the star go in? should i let the tank age a bit? and do I need to feed it anything special?