I wish I had the time, equipment and money for an anemone, but we are just starting slow, that's for sure. Our urchin is a pencil urchin, so he doesn't have poisonous spines. They are all blunt and the shop owner picked him up with his hand. He is pretty tiny and harmless. Our test kit was aparently off though and our Nitrates are at about 50 ml/g, which isn't good. That's why we have to do the water change. It is the only way to get the nitrates out of the water. I agree with you that I am sceptical about what many people say, but I do know that this is the only way to lower that level in our tank. It will take us a while to complete that water change for sure, but I think it is probably the best thing to do right now. It will be a while before we add more invertibrates into the tank, so our main goal is to keep the ones we have alive and if anything else does die, to get it out of the tank as quickly as possible. all of our fish seem to be doing really well still. Thank goodness! |