First saltwater tank! (fish caught from local beach)

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well, ive done fish for two years now. this is my first salt tank and IMO, i started with a cool project.
since a kid i always loved sifting through seaweed to see what i could find, recently i got it down to a science, and decided that id start my first salt tank with only things i could get from the beach (maybe ill make certain acceptions) i live in south florida btw, i go to deerfield beach and red reef park (this place has the coolest stuff uve ever seenin wildlife)

so, ive got a ten gallon tank, a 30 gal aqua clear, a piece of junk heater that is set to only go to 78 (weak sauce) and a little deep-blue t5ho light on it.

i got the water, the sand, the rocks, the seaweed, and the livestock all from local waters
ive caught what i was told is an "angler frogfish". ive looked it up, and it seems that the one i caught is called a "sargassum fish" but idk i cant be certain. i got him from the seaweed that he blends in with too well (i can never seem him!) i also got some crabs and shrimp from the seaweed that blend with it just as well as the "frogfish".
i also caught these jumpy silver fellas, at red reef park. they were coming up to the very tip of where the waves come up on the sand, so i scooped them on their slope back into the water.
this tank has been running for only 3 or 4 days. i put an extra bio bag in the filter, and used some store bought bacteria for salt tanks.

QUESTIONS!
1. what kind of fish did i get? and the crabs? possible id on the shrimp?
2. any tips on salt tanks? ive never done one and im not sure what to focus on.
GIVE ME ANY ADVICE! thank you!

wow thank u guys for the tips, very very helpful. im kinda sad now because i feel as though this project wont last very long, however, in the event that everythign dies, i get to start that lil nano reef tank i always wanted (Stimpy-joy face). for now, ive been feeding cyclop-eez or w.e that is, and mysis shrimp, as well as spectrum pelets. no luck with the pellets though, but im sure the shrimps and a crabs are eating them as they drift to the floor. i can NEVER catch my angler eating! i definitly had at least 25 shrimp of varying sizes to begin with, but i rarely see the small ones anymore (i assume because either A: they are hiding in the sargassum, or B: they are eaten already) im going to continue to catch things from the beach, and most certainly as many little shrimp as i can (they make for a great snack for my cichlids as well, they LOVE them)

my goals for the future are to isolate my puffer for a little while in a seperate 29 gallon and slowly acclimate him to brackish, from there i will let him rest in the brackish for say a month or two to let him get used to heavier salt, and then ill start moving towards full marine... then ill possibly move w.e i have in my little marine tank into the bigger one. but who knows just a bunch of ideas floating in my head. im sad to ehar that the angler is so agressive, and that these crabs are a threat, and that the silver guys might get too big! hopefully ill catch something and youll all tell me "oh yah it stays small, non agressive, easy to feed, and works well with everything!"

ALSOOOO for a little description of these tiny silver fellas i got, they seem to have red eyes and a red trim on their anal and dorsal fins. im not sure what their tru color is because at times they are all silver, and other times, their back-halves turn slightly black, im not sure if this is a stress signal or not, i cant tell with these guys because they are so **** small and NEVER stop moving. so active..

whats a skimmer?

fshfanatic said:

protein skimmer.

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ohh word.... whats that?