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10-27-2010, 07:14 PM
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help
Thanks for taking the time to help. I just dropped them in the tank. My tank is 50 gallon it has been up and running for about a year. I got them from another reefer. His tank looked very good but he was downsizing. I think they are dead but I am trying to understand what I did wrong.
 
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10-27-2010, 09:22 PM
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For any inverts I reccomend drip acclimation...float the bag for 15-20 minutes until temps of the bag water and your display match. Then empty the contents of the bag into a bucket (or in our case we use a 5 gallon fish tank). Get about 5 or 6 feet airline tubing and knot one end, but not super tight...start a syphon from your display into the bucket/smaller tank and let it drip through the knot about 2-4 drips per second. When the volume of the water doubles in the small bucket/tank take out half and continue to drip until the water volume doubles again...this whole process should take anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour....then you can release the inverts into your display (or quarantine etc).... it seems like a really long, drawn out process....but it's worth it in the end. Hope this helps!
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#4
10-27-2010, 10:16 PM
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Some urchins are more sensitive than others but they are undoubtably one animal that needs a good careful acclimation.
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10-27-2010, 10:36 PM
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i have two in my 180g that has been up for 8 months. one was added around the 4month period and other at the 6month. i drip acclimated them.
When i got the first guy, his spines were all broken off and lost but he grew them back super fast. the second one I got has these massive zoas on his head and most people dont notice him there. here is a pic 
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