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01-11-2008, 07:33 PM
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You can feed them, my longspine urchin enjoys flake food and pellets (just need to shoot the food using a turkey baster into the spines - it finds the food - it's kindof freaky watching an urchin catch flake food, who'da thunk they could do that??
 )But, no way would I have mine in a 10g. When I got mine it was small, like 2" across tip-to-tip, body the size of a dime... but it was body the size of a quarter and 6" across within a couple weeks ... and body the size of a toonie a couple weeks later ... I have no idea it's fully extended length nowadays but the body is the size of a raquetball. Anyhow I was surprised how quickly it grew .. so I don't think a 10g would work well I'm afraid. You might want to look into making a surrogate urchin for those banggai fry. Probably could get away with something as simple as some underwater epoxy wadded into a ball, and a bunch of swizzle sticks or narrow straws jammed into it...
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01-11-2008, 08:13 PM
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^ Holy wowzers!!! That's one fast growing urchin!! EEK!
I have some spikey looking fake plants in with the Bangers weighted upsidedown with some epoxy. They seem to like it. LOL.
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01-11-2008, 09:24 PM
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That's what you need....a fake urchin. You just want it for a home for your babies, without all the trouble associated with keeping a live one. Even a fake one would look better than your net breeder thing.
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01-11-2008, 10:18 PM
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I have a urchin has grown much in about 4 months....he has basically snapped most of his spines short so he can go in and out of all the rock work
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01-12-2008, 02:22 AM
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01-12-2008, 02:57 AM
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I have a short spine urchin (tuxedo?) and even he has grown fast! He mostly eats the coraline, however it now knows where the nori gets put, and seems to love it. Not sure if a long spine would eat nori or not? Cool to watch move around though! Would love to see a pic if you go the homemade route!!!
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01-12-2008, 04:38 AM
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I got a tiny one in July, maybe 2 inches across, did well in my 8g cube. I measured him at just under 11 inches last week.
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