How many sea urchins can I sustain in my Nano

Better to wait. I've kept them in a reef tank before, but
after a while it's like "ok enough is enough". They are
beneficial on the reef, but in a reef tank you want a more
perfect environment. It's like bugs being beneficial to
the environment, but you don't want them eating your garden.

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets



Gill Passman wrote on 1/22/2007 5:08 PM:
Wayne Sallee wrote:
And they will from time to time eat some of your coral as well.

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets


So do you think I should resist for now and wait until I get the bigger
tank and then just keep one in there as well if I am really set on them?
My clowns are already prone to nip at my corals and I don't want a two
pronged attack so to speak....and in a 15g Nano there is less food
available and less margin for error....

TIA
Gill

Wayne Sallee wrote:
Better to wait. I've kept them in a reef tank before, but after a while
it's like "ok enough is enough". They are beneficial on the reef, but in
a reef tank you want a more perfect environment. It's like bugs being
beneficial to the environment, but you don't want them eating your garden.

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets


Thanks Wayne....I will wait until I get the larger tank (soon I hope
just waiting for the LFS to get one in stock - new model and all
that)....and then wait again til everything is right to sustain this
sort of creature.....the one advantage with waiting is that everything
is so darn expensive you need to anyway or you will bankrupt yourself -
lol.....maybe they will hold one for me (I mean the long spined black
one that I just think is so cooool at the moment - if they won't it just
isn't meant to be....)

Thanks
Gill

I'm sure finding an Urchin when thre time comes wil not be a big
issue. Their spines are just like ceramic. I have been stuck a few
times with them while scuba diving. Worst part is if your diving a
sunk boat etc and bump yu r head into one. Those spoines break off
and even with a tweezers or forceps are next to impossible to pull out
as they just crumble up. How do they ship them without them puncturing
a whole in the plastic bags?

I can not say anything about folks keeping stuff I would not keep as I
am not the one to throw rocks in that direction. I have a tank I call
the Undesireables Tank.it has all the critters that folks normally
flush when found. Little mean gorilla crab living along with a nice
mantis shrimp, lots and lots of aipstsia, some really nice green pink
and tan manjano anemones, a super large bristle worm, a rogue hermit
crab, who did nothing but continually scrape my coraline off my
liverocks, and hundreds of asterina starfish. Hmmm. maaybe a small
urchin could go just fine in that tank......certainly nothing in there
for it to hurt....dunno how it would get along with the mantis
though...

On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 23:40:25 +0000, Gill Passman
wrote:

Wayne Sallee wrote:
Better to wait. I've kept them in a reef tank before, but after a while
it's like "ok enough is enough". They are beneficial on the reef, but in
a reef tank you want a more perfect environment. It's like bugs being
beneficial to the environment, but you don't want them eating your garden.

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets


Thanks Wayne....I will wait until I get the larger tank (soon I hope
just waiting for the LFS to get one in stock - new model and all
that)....and then wait again til everything is right to sustain this
sort of creature.....the one advantage with waiting is that everything
is so darn expensive you need to anyway or you will bankrupt yourself -
lol.....maybe they will hold one for me (I mean the long spined black
one that I just think is so cooool at the moment - if they won't it just
isn't meant to be....)

Thanks
Gill



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"Tristan" wrote in message
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I'm sure finding an Urchin when thre time comes wil not be a big
issue. Their spines are just like ceramic. I have been stuck a few
times with them while scuba diving. Worst part is if your diving a
sunk boat etc and bump yu r head into one. Those spoines break off
and even with a tweezers or forceps are next to impossible to pull out
as they just crumble up. How do they ship them without them puncturing
a whole in the plastic bags?

I can not say anything about folks keeping stuff I would not keep as I
am not the one to throw rocks in that direction. I have a tank I call
the Undesireables Tank.it has all the critters that folks normally
flush when found. Little mean gorilla crab living along with a nice
mantis shrimp, lots and lots of aipstsia, some really nice green pink
and tan manjano anemones, a super large bristle worm, a rogue hermit
crab, who did nothing but continually scrape my coraline off my
liverocks, and hundreds of asterina starfish. Hmmm. maaybe a small
urchin could go just fine in that tank......certainly nothing in there
for it to hurt....dunno how it would get along with the mantis
though...

On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 23:40:25 +0000, Gill Passman
wrote:

Wayne Sallee wrote:
Better to wait. I've kept them in a reef tank before, but after a
while
it's like "ok enough is enough". They are beneficial on the reef,
but in
a reef tank you want a more perfect environment. It's like bugs
being
beneficial to the environment, but you don't want them eating your
garden.

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets


Thanks Wayne....I will wait until I get the larger tank (soon I hope
just waiting for the LFS to get one in stock - new model and all
that)....and then wait again til everything is right to sustain this
sort of creature.....the one advantage with waiting is that everything
is so darn expensive you need to anyway or you will bankrupt
yourself -
lol.....maybe they will hold one for me (I mean the long spined black
one that I just think is so cooool at the moment - if they won't it
just
isn't meant to be....)

Thanks
Gill



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