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FishyFishy! 04-01-2015 11:42 PM

Urchin ID?
 
Anyone know what kind of urchin this is?

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c3...pszyytrmux.jpg

toytech 04-02-2015 12:08 AM

Rock boring urchin?

kien 04-02-2015 12:16 AM

Looks like a Purple Collector Urchin.

Skimmin 04-02-2015 12:17 AM

2nd the rock boring urchin.

TimT 04-02-2015 12:31 AM

It's an Echinometra mathaei. Common burrowing urchin or boring urchin. They tend to come in as tiny juveniles in corals etc. Then they grow out in your tank.

FishyFishy! 04-02-2015 04:06 AM

Yeah im going with rock boring. I put a piece of live rock in my frag tank to test it and he was instantly burrowed into the cracks. Cool looking urchin though.

kien 04-02-2015 04:40 AM

I don't know what you guys are talking about. That urchin doesn't look boring at all. It looks quite exciting to me.

FishyFishy! 04-02-2015 01:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kien (Post 943480)
I don't know what you guys are talking about. That urchin doesn't look boring at all. It looks quite exciting to me.

Hahahaha

Skimmer Juice 04-02-2015 03:32 PM

I have had that urchin for about 8 years now , they are really cool and my bumble bee shrimp hangs out in him . Go get a bumblebee shrimp from oceans so he can have a driver lol

FishyFishy! 04-02-2015 03:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Skimmer Juice (Post 943521)
I have had that urchin for about 8 years now , they are really cool and my bumble bee shrimp hangs out in him . Go get a bumblebee shrimp from oceans so he can have a driver lol

Do they have a symbiotic relationship in the wild? I'll have to look into that. Seems like he'll be hiding in the rock a lot. I added a piece into the frag tank and he went right to it and burrowed


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