THere is a book called "The Conscientious Marine Aquarist" by Robert M. Fenner. This has been my "fish bible" for the past five months. It has alot of great info for the beginner.
100 gal salt water:
Live Rock (about 20 lbs so far)
Starfish (a big maroon one)
1 Arrowhead crab
2 cleaner shrimp
1 rock fish
1 Feather Duster
6 very tiny hermit crabs
1 very big snail with a very pretty shell (dont know the name of it)
6 damsels (domino, yellow with a spot on its tail, blue one, three stripe, and a Nemo)
30 gal saltwater
no fish cause it is a Hospital tank but there are bugs and a slug in it. (dont know where they came from they just showed up one day.)
10 Gal freshwater
1 crab
1beta
1molly (which has lived through 4 boughts of ich, lack of oxygen, power outage, not being cleaned for several months because my daughter forgot, and being beaten up by another fish. BTW his name is Lucky)
1 green tetra
1 snail (that is after removing all the babies it tends to make weekly)
Those I have killed so far because I don't know what I am doing: two damsels (both sgt mjrs), Yellow Tang, Racoon Butterfly, a starfish, and a sleeper gobbie.
Lessoned learned: no more fish until I can keep these alive for several months....
