Sea Urchin White Cloud

[seancc317]

Hey everyone, I was just hitting a bunch of Aiptasia with Aiptasia-X. During this, I noticed my Sea Urchin releasing a white cloud. As this is the first time i witnessed this I'm concerned/curious. Just want to make sure it won't harm my other inhabitants. Please help if you have experience with this.

 

[ritter6788]

Attempting to spawn?

 

[seancc317]

Put him outside the tank and the cloud is settled in this pic.

 

[TrishW]

It is harmless. Mine does it all the time. Well, he does it alot, probably two or more times a month that I see. It has never had a negative effect on anything in my tank and I have a little bit of everything.

 

[seancc317]

It is harmless. Mine does it all the time. Well, he does it alot, probably two or more times a month that I see. It has never had a negative effect on anything in my tank and I have a little bit of everything.

Thanks for the quick response. I guess I'll put him back in lol. I was worried it was some sort of defense mechanism of mass destruction.

 

[TrishW]

Mine has done it when nothing was out of the ordinary but I have also witnessed him do that when I had my arm in the tank and he probably didn't like it. He finally started munching on sps so I had to banish him to the settling tank. He will live a happy, fat life of eating seawood rubber banded to a rock unless I decide to place him back in the display. I can't make myself give him away because he is my favorite critter.

 

[TrishW]

I just re-read your original post. Be careful that you are not trying to kill too many aiptasia at once and making your pH drop.

 

[seancc317]

I just re-read your original post. Be careful that you are not trying to kill too many aiptasia at once and making your pH drop.

Thank you, I'll check that now. I did kinda go on an aiptasia rampage.

 

[seancc317]

Checked pH. Still perfect. Thanks for the Halloween scare lol. Thanks for the info.