Bortass
02/26/2009, 02:25 PM
Hi guys.
I added a blue tuxedo urchin to my tank a bit over 1 month ago. I looked in the tank today and and it was on the sand and didn't look right. Sure enough it's just an empty exoskeleton. My snails and hermit crabs cleaned it out.
I acclimated it for about 15 minutes or so with a drip. It had been moving over my glass and rock work. there's plenty of hair algea and even some corraline on the glass for it to eat. I'm pretty sure it was eating but maybe I'm wrong.
Everything looked fine and it seemed healthy a couple of days ago. Yesterday I didn't spend alot of time looking in the tank. I think it was in the same spot on the sand as I found it's skeleton today. Though it still had the debris it was carrying for camo on it, so it didn't seem out of the ordinary.
Any idea of what may have happened to it? I got it from a LFS, so it didn't have a long trip from the store to my tank.
The exoskeloton has a small hole near the top and a larger one where it's mouth would be. The larger hole was facing the sand, so I think it moved to that spot and dies versus something 'gettting' it. Not that i have anything in the tank that should have bothered it.
Any thoughts? I'm bummed that it died, so I guess I won't try to add another one. I didn't think they were touchy but maybe they are harder to keep then I thought. Sigh.
I added a blue tuxedo urchin to my tank a bit over 1 month ago. I looked in the tank today and and it was on the sand and didn't look right. Sure enough it's just an empty exoskeleton. My snails and hermit crabs cleaned it out.
I acclimated it for about 15 minutes or so with a drip. It had been moving over my glass and rock work. there's plenty of hair algea and even some corraline on the glass for it to eat. I'm pretty sure it was eating but maybe I'm wrong.
Everything looked fine and it seemed healthy a couple of days ago. Yesterday I didn't spend alot of time looking in the tank. I think it was in the same spot on the sand as I found it's skeleton today. Though it still had the debris it was carrying for camo on it, so it didn't seem out of the ordinary.
Any idea of what may have happened to it? I got it from a LFS, so it didn't have a long trip from the store to my tank.
The exoskeloton has a small hole near the top and a larger one where it's mouth would be. The larger hole was facing the sand, so I think it moved to that spot and dies versus something 'gettting' it. Not that i have anything in the tank that should have bothered it.
Any thoughts? I'm bummed that it died, so I guess I won't try to add another one. I didn't think they were touchy but maybe they are harder to keep then I thought. Sigh.