Prep For First Urchin?
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Cthulukelele
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Welcome! What kind of urchin? How old is the tank? Other inhabitants? Plenty of algae?
EithelSirion
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Lots of algae, and make sure that you have everything you care about firmly attached to your aquascape or it’s going on an adventure that may end with it dropped in the back corner of your tank
I can just tell you what I did with mine, as I have heard they can be tricky to get through acclimation.
I floated the bag in the tank to bring it to temp, then slow dripped it for over an hour and a half, making sure its slow and the water is at least doubled/tripled in volume by the end…then I floated the container again to bring the temp back up again as the slow drip would have lowered the temp.
I floated the bag in the tank to bring it to temp, then slow dripped it for over an hour and a half, making sure its slow and the water is at least doubled/tripled in volume by the end…then I floated the container again to bring the temp back up again as the slow drip would have lowered the temp.
PeterEde
2500 Club Member
I've had a long spine urchin for 2 years now. It came as a 3mm baby urchin and is now 3" dia. It survived cycle.
My last live rock came with 2 rock borers and 2 decorators. I've lost one decorator a while back. No idea why.
So far I'm not seeing them as being that difficult.
Just let algae grow on the back glass. It will eat that and longspines love coraline algae.
Mine appears to know if it come near the surface I will also feed it nori. I slide it carefully between the glass and it's spines.
My last live rock came with 2 rock borers and 2 decorators. I've lost one decorator a while back. No idea why.
So far I'm not seeing them as being that difficult.
Just let algae grow on the back glass. It will eat that and longspines love coraline algae.
Mine appears to know if it come near the surface I will also feed it nori. I slide it carefully between the glass and it's spines.
kyle38
New Member
Woke up to mine with a new favia frag as a hat this morning. Pincushion is a great mower they get to be a good size though he’s a little bulldozer breaks branches off the birds nest and also eats coralline and GSP. Also have a tuxedo that’s a model citizen and a pencil urchin that is forever banished to the sump he goes straight for any coral and eats itformallydehyde
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Think of some fun names, have some loose stuff it can pick up to decorate itself with, have some algae on the glass so you be mesmerized watching its weird little teethies chomp it.
