sea urchins

Urchins are scavengers and opportunistic feeders. Something else
killed the fish and the urchin grabbed an easy meal. Post again with
temp, ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, phosphorus, salinity and calcium if
possible. Also tell us about your filtration and water change
schedule. The more info we have, the more we can help!!!



billy

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"nicodemus" wrote in message
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I know next to nothing about fish tanks. A friend talked me into
having
one. It is a marine tank set up with live rock, live sand, 1 large
clown fish (black and yellow), 3 black & white striped fish, 2
nemos,
an orang,white and black wrasser, an elecric blue (damsel?) and a
sea
urchin. The large black and yellow clown and blue fish have been in
the
tank now for almost a year. Everything has been great until about 4
months ago when my friend brought me the sea urchin. Within weeks I
couldnt find my favorite shrimp that I had had for five months, a
yellow wrasser had disappeared also and this morning I found the
sea
urchin dining on one of my black and white striped clown fish. Last
night when I checked the tank they were all healthy. My friend said
the
sea urchin only eats dead fish but my shrimp, my yellow wrasser and
the
black and white clown fish never at any time showed signs of
sickness.
This is the first time I actually caught the urchin dining on the
fish.
Is he the culprit or could there be another also?

I dont want to lose any more as I have sort of grown attached to
them.

nicodemus