Feeding enough?

[horner420]

Just a question if i'm feedding eough food to my fish...I feed them twice a day with a good pinch of flake in the morn and a pinch of flake and half of a brine shrimp cube. Have 2 neon gobies, 3 blue damsels, 1 tom Clown, And 1 striped dottyback. The reason i'm asking is that i think my dotty has eat my 3 pep shrimp. One morning i turned the lights on and as soon as i did i saw the dotty attack a shrimp(thought they were peaceful). Was the shrimp already dead? To me it looked like when he was attacked. he still had life to him(nerves). That was the first of three that are now fish food(just found the last one this morn in half the other half is gone).
On a second note are hermits territorial. Had 5. now only one. He seems to have killed the others and is gathering their shells in one place :confused: .
my parameters are all good. can't test for iodine or calcium. no tests for them. could this be my problem with the shrimp and hermits. are they just dying?
I have both iodine and calcium witch i have been dosing according to instuctions..

[morleyz]

Hermits aren't normally "territorial", but they do require extra shells to be available when they outgrow their current home (or if they just decide to change one day). If there aren't any extras, they will be agressive towards other hermits.

Or you just have an angry hermit.

[horner420]

have extras....not to many but enough(10 or so). he's not even in the biggest shell of the ones that died. doing it for spite?

[OrionGirl]

Hermits are like teen age girls--they want to try on everything in the closet before going out in their original t-shirt and jeans. In large enough tanks (100+), they are fine, but in smaller tanks, they will go after each other and snails without mercy.

I'd maybe consider adding some variety to your feeding--flake tends to be my very last choice for marine tanks. Frozen community formulas offer a wider variety of nutrients for the fish.