sick urchin?

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ryanmellar

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I purchcased a short spined urchin today. I've been acclimatising him thru the drip method for 4 hours and all his spines have gone 'limp' is he ok? Do I risk transfering him to my display tank? I tested this morning nitrate 5 nitrite 0 amm 0 ph 8.3 salinity 1.023
 
Parameters seem ok, but a 4 hour drip acclimation seems like a very long time. Max acclimation for my corals and fish have been 2 hours. Inverts maybe 30 mins.
 
If it were me, I'd put him in the tank. It could be stressed out from the 4 hour drip acclimation.
 
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