How long should I acclimate an urchin between two of my own tanks?

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I know sea urchins are really sensitive and you need to acclimate them really slowly.
But now I wanna move my urchin between two of my own tanks.
They are 2 complete seperate tanks but they have the same salinity and temperature.


Do I still need to acclimate him really slow or can he be moved a lot faster now?
 

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Interesting question as this happened to me recently. I did a half hour drip but my salinity was .001 apart and dkh was about 1.5 off. Not sure what else they are sensitive too but he is doing just fine.
 

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Any difference in nitrates? Again acclimation is really to compensate for differences between starting water parameters and ending water parameters. If everything matches up I don't see why you couldn't just place him in. Bumping though.
 

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