Urchin show off

[Onixom]

Hi everyone, ive loved the idea of urchins especially the tuxedo urchin just love the way they pick everything to wear as a little hat and parade around the tank.
I dont think the urchin i have is a tuxedo urchin (LFS just said urchin) however he also picks things up and parades around the tank.

So I would like everyone who owns a urchin to post a photo of their urchins just so everyone can see

 

[i cant think]

Hi everyone, ive loved the idea of urchins especially the tuxedo urchin just love the way they pick everything to wear as a little hat and parade around the tank.
I dont think the urchin i have is a tuxedo urchin (LFS just said urchin) however he also picks things up and parades around the tank.
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So I would like everyone who owns a urchin to post a photo of their urchins just so everyone can see

That guy looks to be a Purple Pincushion, I have two White Pincushions and I agree with how chaotic they are. Here’s an old photo of one of my two.

 

[Fishfreak2009]

I just picked up 2 ORA captive bred pincushion urchins yesterday. Already going to town on the algae.

I also have a pencil urchin but he lives in the sump now after eating feather duster worms and mushroom corals. You can see him in this photo before he was moved to the refugium.

 

[i cant think]

I just picked up 2 ORA captive bred pincushion urchins yesterday. Already going to town on the algae.

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I also have a pencil urchin but he lives in the sump now after eating feather duster worms and mushroom corals. You can see him in this photo before he was moved to the refugium.

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Eats mushrooms hey? Wonder if it would still wipe out my clam though.

 

[Fishfreak2009]

Eats mushrooms hey? Wonder if it would still wipe out my clam though.

Wouldn't put it past him. He literally crawled across the 75 gallon to eat a feather duster. Ate the worm, the tube, everything. Sought it out like a heat-seeking missile

 

[Onixom]

Wouldn't put it past him. He literally crawled across the 75 gallon to eat a feather duster. Ate the worm, the tube, everything. Sought it out like a heat-seeking missile

Well as the saying goes "F$*#" i have a feather duster that has been in tank since i started with my clowns 6 month ago. I might have a rare exception he might leave it alone... hopefully lol

 

[traggy]

Hi everyone, ive loved the idea of urchins especially the tuxedo urchin just love the way they pick everything to wear as a little hat and parade around the tank.
I dont think the urchin i have is a tuxedo urchin (LFS just said urchin) however he also picks things up and parades around the tank.
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So I would like everyone who owns a urchin to post a photo of their urchins just so everyone can see

Here’s my Urchin , with the new hat

 

[LiveFreeAndReef]

Not the best picture, but my urchin lifts weights

 

[i cant think]

Not the best picture, but my urchin lifts weights
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Mine have yet to try lifting weights (Lazy F*$#%), I’d quite like them to though as I have a few rocks that fall every so often and there are some gaps for coral and small rubble to go. Instead they drop coral on the sand and leave the wrasses to kill it by throwing sand all over it.

 

[monkeyCmonkeyDo]

Love pencil urchins!
D

 

[Paul B]

 

[Kmst80]

One of my three rock boring urchins...not the best picture

 

[i cant think]

They’re beautiful but being stabbed by one would hurt (I witnessed a coworker being stabbed by one a few years back and it sounded as if it was extremely painful, let’s just say many words were said to that urchin).

 

[Paul B]

It is painful but not poisonous. I got many of them in my belly from SCUBA diving and especially snorkeling. You can't get them out, but they dissolve eventually.

 

[Fishfreak2009]

It is painful but not poisonous. I got many of them in my belly from SCUBA diving and especially snorkeling. You can't get them out, but they dissolve eventually.

How do they do with LPS? I've considered one for my tank, but I don't want it to pop all my frogspawns, hammers, and torches, or eat my acans or SPS.

I've kept one before in a FOWLR with a bunch of Caulerpa and it was awesome and got huge, but never with corals. I'd love a spot for my baby banggai cardinals to hide.

 

[Paul B]

Fishfreak2009 I have mostly LPS including frogspawns and hammers and so far there is no problem. This urchin has probably been in my tank for 10 years and is very careful when he travels all over the tank. I got it as a tiny nickel size creature and now he is about 7" across.

 

[Sod Buster]

Mine likes to pull around my string of pearls. About the size of a quarter. No sanitary code, just poops all over, like the geese in the mall parking lot.

 

[Sleeping Giant]

 

[Oredigger77]

We've got a pair of tuxedos. They do incredible work keeping the tank clean but occasionally they like to go for gorgonian rides.

They also do good work keeping the glass clean.

 

[TriggerFinger]

here’s my Halloween urchin.