Urchin help

[Cole.mormon]

My urchin lost most of his spines will he be ok?

 

[Cole.mormon]

 

[Cole.mormon]

I put him there so he can was some algae

 

[Sharkbait19]

Usually a sign of deterioration. Not completely dead, but clearly doesn’t like something in your tank. Can you post params?

 

[Cole.mormon]

It picked up substrate maybe w it's sticky tentacles and couldn't drop ot

 

[Cole.mormon]

It

 

[Cole.mormon]

Pencil urchin is fine

 

[Cole.mormon]

Bump

 

[vetteguy53081]

With mine, As it lost some, some baby ones were coming in.
The most common reasons for an Urchin to lose spines are:
1 - Osmotic Shock - typically from a rapid decrease in salinity. This can be something as simple as adding a weeks worth of top-off all at once.
2 - Starvation - they are fairly easy to feed. Try an algae sheet.
3 - Low Salinity. Depending on the species they do not tolerate low salinity well
4 -High nitrates (above 20)

 

[Austin456]

Usually when a urchin drops there spines is a downward spiral. Usually this means death and very difficult to recover from

 

[dedragon]

its not a good sign for it to be dropping so many at once, did you do a parameter check?

 

[Cole.mormon]

Icp test 2 days ago
Everything in check

 

[dedragon]

nitrate, or phosphate in the icp test too? sometimes they arent

 

[Cole.mormon]

Phos is .18

 

[dedragon]

phosphate is a bit high but not too much concern, i would double check nitrate though and prob do a water change to lower nutrients.

 

[Cole.mormon]

Already did