Thanks + urchin question

[jdavid]

Hey Rit, thanks for helping me with my CUC today. The astrea snails are munching away (all 100 of them) and the urchin has been all over. The urchin seems totally healthy and happy, but I was wondering if you could fill me in on something. I tried researching and couldn't figure out what had happened. While I was floating the bags in my tank, the urchin seems to have released something into the water. When I came back to let it out, you couldn't even see the urchin in the bag. I was relieved to pull it out looking just fine. As you can see in the pics, he is fine, too bad the true color does not show in the pictures. It looks much more attractive then some of the black and white urchins I have seen... The pink is just amazing!

So any ideas what happened during acclimation? In the pic you can see the two bags after I took out the snails and urchin.

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[heathlindner25]

That urchin is going to eat any bit of coraline you try and grow

 

[ringo®]

This is just a shot in the dark, but Urchins tend to bring a bit of the substrate with them. Maybe that tied in with a bit of a bathroom break.

 

[bobz]

I agree.. think it was probably waste

 

[jdavid]

heathlindner25;896978 wrote: That urchin is going to eat any bit of coraline you try and grow

No biggie. Knowing that I might actually move it to my other nano. I can not keep up with the coralline on the glass. It's ridiculous how fast it grows

 

[jdavid]

Atlanta Aquarium;896985 wrote: Hey Josh. I just saw your post. I don't know much about Urchin. With that said, could he be trying to spawn? This is just a guess.

I guess it is not worth worrying about, the urchin seems fine

 

[jdavid]

barry_keith;897073 wrote: That's always a sign of good, stable parameters :up:

This is what happens if I skip out on it's weekly scraping.

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I have just been too busy
This tank has gone down from bi-weekly water changes to bi-monthly. It's an 8g with a small
Pair of clowns, a red bubble tip, an aleveopora, two heads of Duncan, and a zoa colony. CUC is a few snails and hermit crabs, heavy stomatella population (some 1" long, probably 30-50 in there), and a small emerald crab.

Coralline is cool, but it is literally plating in there. I might have to move him anyway, my army of snails cleaned the whole tank spotless already.good thing I'm setting up a new tank soon.