Good Morning! We have purchased live rock from the ocean and it came with life on it that we can not keep because our tank is too small to support them. We have a dilemma in that we are not comfortable with just destroying life, so we hope to safely and successfully be able to ship them with out loss. We were thinking that we would place the urchins in a plastic bag, fill the bag with tank water as well as straight oxygen ( we have access to O2 from the fire department rescue kit), place the bag in a sealed plastic container so that if the bag breaks, the water with oxygen and urchins will remain in tact. Then we would place the container in a box with Styrofoam chips and tape it all tight.
Will a high oxygen level adversely effect urchin respiration?
Is there a way to address the heat issue? Freezer packs might drop the temperature too low and if we do nothing, will it get too warm?
We would like to ship these urchins tomorrow if possible, so we apologize for being a wee bit pushy, but any advice we could get between now and tomorrow morning 06:00 would be great!
Thanks everyone!