Inland Reefs - Getting Acquainted

I am an 80 year old retired photographer. Down through the years I have had several marine aquariums. I even cared for a pregnant octopus at one time, but that's a long story. During one of those times I was able to raise a small hermit crab I bought in a fish store to quite a huge and rather magnificent specimen with a shell seven inches across. Eventually it died, either from old age or disease, I know not which.
Keeping 55 gallon marine aquariums became quite a chore as I became blessed with arthritis, so it's been some years since I've had my hands in salt water. Lately however, I have been thinking more and more about my old hermit crab and thinking it might be nice to devote some of my golden years to try breeding hermit crabs. Please don't say it can't be done. When I set up my first marine tank over fifty years ago we had to contend with metal aquarium construction and toxic aquarium cement. The consensus was, "Keeping salt water fish alive is impossible!" And, at that time, if you even suggested that some day you could keep live coral in your living room, you would have surely been commited.
Maybe I am just before my time. I have been shooting stereo slides with the same Stereo Realist camera since 1952. Three dimensional technology was inevitable. I knew that the first time I picked up a Stereo Realist camera in 1952. Unfortunately, digital technology wasn't there to make it a viable media at that time. So I had to wait. The irony is, that I will probably be dead before it reaches the full potential I have waited all these years to see.

I like radio controlled electric helicopters, old movies on DVD and surfing the web. I also enjoy turning some of my several thousand stereo slides into anaglyphs by copying them into my computer using my Nikon Coolpix 5700. Currently, I am trying my hand at hydroponics using The AeroGarden and learning R/C quadrocopter flying.

What I would like to do mainly is establish a nano reef aquarium and populate it with hermit crabs. A tall order to be sure since I really don't know what I need to know about hermit crabs and I know absolutely nothing about the establishment and maintenance of live rocks. I need mentors who can guide me on my quest. Kind souls with kind hearts who can advise and educate me about nano reef aquariums. If anyone wishes to help and advise me, please email me.

Have a happy and productive new year.

Christopher R. Mohr Sr.