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Old 01/03/2008, 02:55 PM
philter4 philter4 is offline
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Usually when this happens (at least to the atlantic pin cushins that I've had experience with) it is from long term starvation. After they eat all the algae in the tank they have to be fed a lot of substitutes such as nori or some of the better algae pellets. Other causes could be poor health for any reason, I don't know of any that shed their spines, but maybe there are some that do.