Getting my sea urchin today!

Do you have enough algae in your tank for it to eat? If not what will you feed it?
I read that they need a well established tank and low lighting to do well.

 

As far as algae goes I've deffiently got gha taking off right now. And once algae is gone I will either take it back so it won't starve, or find out what I can feed him. And as far as low lighting goes, when researching I saw some threads of people keeping them under metal halides and I guess they were doing great, so I think lighting won't be an issue

 

oh let me know how it tastes ! i hear they are super yummy ! ^,O

 

huh?

Mine is doing just fine under my halides. It doesn't venture near the top of the tank during day light but it likes to hang out on the overflow at night.

I wouldn't worry to much about feeding it if you have some coralline algae. It will eat the coralline. when coralline gets eaten it seems to see that as a signal to grow like crazy

 

im loading a pic onto photobucket, then i'll post. how do i know if it's dead or not? i don't think the lfs would sell me a dead urchin, but i just want to make sure.

 

well here it is floating in the bag

 

so when are you going to put it in the tank? I want to see it. I was thinking of getting one too

 

You should be able to see it's little "feet" moving around feeling things out.

It should start crawling around soon. If it does not move then.......

 

i placed him in the tank just now, i sat him on a flattish rock and i'll take a pic of him now, i'll take a pic tomorrow as well with the lights on, as i want himt o get adjusted to the tank

 

hmmm ok i think i saw his spikes, or whatever moving around in the bag when i brought him home, so maybe that's a sign that he's a live. he was also kind of hard to get out of the bag, almost like he was suctioned to the bottom of the bag so maybe that's also a good sign