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05-21-2011, 12:26 AM
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Good Or Bad Urchin?
I was doing a water change today and I happen to come across this little urchin... which is very weird cuz all of my rock I made myself, musta hitched hiked on coral like the green BTA I found. Hes purple with blunt, sparse tips.
But anyways I have him trapped at the moment and I was wondering if hes a good one to keep or will he munch on all my corals and should not be realeased? Last edited by rastaangel; 08-04-2011 at 11:55 PM. 
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05-21-2011, 12:38 AM
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Lol cute things tend to do alot of damage in my experience
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05-21-2011, 12:45 AM
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05-21-2011, 12:48 AM
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ya thats what he looks like except purple... says they bore dens in corals and rocks which is no good
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05-21-2011, 02:40 AM
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I always thought porous rock was beneficial. That little critter doesn't look like he'd do that much damage. No experience with these guys, I did have a couple of pencil urchins, but they expired some time ago. Wouldn't mind a blue tuxedo urchin in the future.
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05-21-2011, 03:33 AM
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unwanted urchin
send it to me and i'll cover shipping cost. postal code V5N 1R7
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05-21-2011, 03:38 AM
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Lol why would you have wanted it? Its gone, my friends trigger made a meal of it as soon as I found out that it would could eat holes in my corals
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05-21-2011, 04:16 AM
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I have a rock boring urchin (Echinometra lu****er) in my frag system with... lets just say 40 different species of coral because I don't feel like counting. I've had it for probably three years now and the only problem it's given me is that it will eat at the silicone seam on a glass aquarium. Which is why its in my frag trough. In all of this time its never actually tried boring a hole in any of my rock or coral. Without any silicone it seems to be quite contempt to eat coraline algae all day and leave everything else alone.
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