Show me the weirdest, gnarliest most unusual urchins you have. Pincushion, pencil or any other weird type of urchin, I just bought a Halloween urchin and i think he’s so cool looking. This is my old pincushion urchin.
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That’s awesome, i just recently saw a huge purple pincushion urchin at my Lfs. I mean like the size of a small football huge.My tuxedo urchins are just too dang boring. I did have a green urchin that once killed and ate a horseshoe crab (will have to see if I still have pictures).
Beautiful long spine!This long spine has been in my tank since 2012ish I also have two pencils. She just started to regrow her spines…… lost them all. She took a beating and keep on ticking. Pencils are great also. They all started at the size of a dime.
Fascinating, I’ve never seen a helmet urchin kept in captivity!My helmet...or dragon scale as i call it (sounds cooler than helmet)
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I have one that looks identical to yours and he has been in there with my pencil, and helmet for last 5 years with no problems. Well they do knock stuff over sometimes.Hitchhiker slate pencil urchin from my rock...
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Still a little guy, about 1.25" across. He has an even smaller buddy too. Not quite so gnarly, but still a pretty cool little dude. This one's around 0.75" across. I read that pencil urchins aren't very reef safe, but I hope that mine are exceptions.
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Yes he has been a model citizen.Fascinating, I’ve never seen a helmet urchin kept in captivity!