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Old 04-01-2015, 11:42 PM
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Anyone know what kind of urchin this is?

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Rock boring urchin?
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Looks like a Purple Collector Urchin.
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2nd the rock boring urchin.
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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.
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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.
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I don't know what you guys are talking about. That urchin doesn't look boring at all. It looks quite exciting to me.
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I don't know what you guys are talking about. That urchin doesn't look boring at all. It looks quite exciting to me.
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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
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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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