How in the world do you feed a Blue Tuxedo Urchin?

[mistergray]

I’ve attempted feeding my Blue Tuxedo Urchin and I’m not having any luck. I’ve seen some say when their urchin comes to the top of the water on the glass, they slip it between the urchin and the glass. That hasn’t worked because the Nori gets soggy quickly.

The urchin hasn’t seemed interested in the green hair algae in my tank and that’s why I’ve taken it upon myself to feed him myself. Yes, it’s a him. That’s what he identifies as.

 

[Stephen8169301]

I never feed my urchin didn’t think you could do that lol

 

[Anemone_Fanatic]

I think that it is eating, if not visibly. Unless the tank is very small (under 20 gallons) or brand new, I've never heard of an urchin needing to be fed. I imagine that it's just eating coralline algae and film algae, both of which are more palatable than hair algae.

 

[mistergray]

I never feed my urchin didn’t think you could do that lol

I wasn’t quite sure until I read somewhere that someone was feeding theirs

 

[mistergray]

I think that it is eating, if not visibly. Unless the tank is very small (under 20 gallons) or brand new, I've never heard of an urchin needing to be fed. I imagine that it's just eating coralline algae and film algae, both of which are more palatable than hair algae.

I sure hope he is. My tank is 32 gallons and 2 years old.

 

[Stephen8169301]

I wasn’t quite sure until I read somewhere that someone was feeding theirs

I just don’t scrape my back glass I let algae grow and use that as my snail urchin feeder

 

[Anemone_Fanatic]

I sure hope he is. My tank is 32 gallons and 2 years old.

Sound like he should be fine then!