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Hey everyone,
Was doing some reading on urchins and decided to buy one after I got some advice on here on how to combat a little hair algea around my tank. Instantly fell in love with it. Bought it at a Big Als (live in Canada). Anywho, prolly my fav addition to my tank...loved watching it and wondering where I'd find it the following day.
Anywho, this morning i found it in a rather odd place in between the rock and glass...thought "strange" felt it was stuck, so I moved it and it fell to the bottom. Hadn't moved AT ALL. Then noticed all the "spikes" that came off, and was lime uh oh that's not good.
Before I added it I tested all my water...parameters are (and still are)
SG 1.024
Temp 77
Ammonia 0
Phos 0.01
Nitrates 5
Alk 9.5
My partner and I really liked this little dude, and before I get another one I wanna figure out of theres something I did wrong, or, did I just get a bad one? I only acclimated it for prolly 30 to 40 mins...tested the stores water and their SG was 1.026 (didn't test anything else). I also contacted the store to tell them as well...was a little ticked...everything else in my tank is doing well...especially my corals...mostly stick to softies and inverts...few clowns a goby and RG.
Was doing some reading on urchins and decided to buy one after I got some advice on here on how to combat a little hair algea around my tank. Instantly fell in love with it. Bought it at a Big Als (live in Canada). Anywho, prolly my fav addition to my tank...loved watching it and wondering where I'd find it the following day.
Anywho, this morning i found it in a rather odd place in between the rock and glass...thought "strange" felt it was stuck, so I moved it and it fell to the bottom. Hadn't moved AT ALL. Then noticed all the "spikes" that came off, and was lime uh oh that's not good.
Before I added it I tested all my water...parameters are (and still are)
SG 1.024
Temp 77
Ammonia 0
Phos 0.01
Nitrates 5
Alk 9.5
My partner and I really liked this little dude, and before I get another one I wanna figure out of theres something I did wrong, or, did I just get a bad one? I only acclimated it for prolly 30 to 40 mins...tested the stores water and their SG was 1.026 (didn't test anything else). I also contacted the store to tell them as well...was a little ticked...everything else in my tank is doing well...especially my corals...mostly stick to softies and inverts...few clowns a goby and RG.