Ready for urchin?

[bvanfish]

Ok I am possibly buying a Halloween urchin tomorrow but I want to see if my tank has enough algae for it. It’s about 2 months old. I haven’t cleaned the glass yet, it is teaming with copepods. My parameters have been solid, doing water changes of 15-20% weekly etc.

Think an urchin has enough food here (only white light)

 

[mdb_talon]

I would say not much to feed them for long. They can be supplentally fed with algae pellets, nori, etc and I believe most are omnivores and will eat leftover fish food/detritus also.

 

[bvanfish]

I would say not much to feed them for long. They can be supplentally fed with algae pellets, nori, etc and I believe most are omnivores and will eat leftover fish food/detritus also.

I have heard this before just nervous if they don’t take them it will starve. Have you feed by just holding food near them?

 

[mdb_talon]

I have heard this before just nervous if they don’t take them it will starve. Have you feed by just holding food near them?

Never successfully lol. I have some in very clean tanks(as far as algae) though and they seem to do fine long-term but I feed algae pellets and weight down some nori on the bottom near the glass they usually find it.

 

[bvanfish]

Never successfully lol. I have some in very clean tanks(as far as algae) though and they seem to do fine long-term but I feed algae pellets and weight down some nori on the bottom near the glass they usually find it.

Do you ever QT them or just drip acclimate and toss in?

 

[mdb_talon]

Do you ever QT them or just drip acclimate and toss in?

This is not advice or a suggestion of best practices, but I just float to temp and drop them in if they have been shipped. I gave up dip acclimating a long time ago. I have several different systems and frequently move them between systems which have different parameters(though similar) and never have an issue.