Why is my Urchin smoking?
 

Haven't seen this before... defense mechanism??

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Hmmm, you should be careful, i hear fish don't do well with second hand smoke :P

Never seen that before, spawning/breeding maybe?

It's sperm. You have a male.

Females release brown eggs.

They also can do it from a lot of changes in the tank.

hahahaha... gross :lol:

Maybe he's just rubbing one out. :p

Does he have hairy palms?

:redface: How frustrating

Get him to stop, he'll go blind

Hahahaha.

But yeah, that's a spawn. Not too uncommon. Can be a stress response or it could just have been time..

just watch for him smoking after!!

Thats gross how its all over him :doh:

Could have been time for...what exactly?

My longspine urchin does that, I always laugh and point it out to my girlfriend because she thinks it's gross.

Y'alls a buncha pervs!

wow.. um.. ya, you just redefined "reef porn" right there.. :neutral:

Look at him... the whole thing is hairy... :lol:

Guilty as charged?

Ah man.... Even the urchin gets more than me.

I have an abalone that does this a few times a month as well, it's cool!

"reef porn" eh? My Maroon pair got down to biness this afternoon, female laid down a huge patch of eggs. The male's a little champ, you never see anything floating around, he gets it done with no mess.

baahahahahahaha that got out of hand quick!! so awesome.

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