Urchin ID?

[FishyFishy!]

Originally Posted by kien

See! There's nothing boring about these urchins at all.

Lol! Yeah! Like symbiotic relationships, purple spines, white rings and weired looking chompers......how could that be boring!!!

I like the name "purple decorator velcro awesome not boring urchin" better.....or whatever kien named him...

[kien]

Originally Posted by FishyFishy!

Lol! Yeah! Like symbiotic relationships, purple spines, white rings and weired looking chompers......how could that be boring!!!

I like the name "purple decorator velcro awesome not boring urchin" better.....or whatever kien named him...

Well, if you're taking suggestions, I would name him Bob. He looks like a Bob.

[FishyFishy!]

LOL

Ok then. Frag tank Bob he is!!

Ladies and gentleman....I present to you...in all his glory. ..FRAG TANK BOB!

[toytech]

If he does become boring then heres an alternative for him

Baked Sea Urchin with Sea Urchin Butter
12 x sea urchins in shells
1 cup unsalted butter
freshly-ground white pepper
2 tbl fish stock
1 tbl heavy cream
1 pch cayenne pepper
Coarse salt to taste
1 tsp fresh lemon juice
Seaweed (optional)
1 whl lemon halved
Method :
Heat oven to 450 degrees. Cut away the flat bottom of the sea-urchin shell with scissors; pour away liquid. Scrape out membrane with the end of a spoon's handle. Set aside the six most attractive urchins in a baking dish.
Scoop the flesh out of the remaining six to yield about 1/2 cup. Pulse in food processor for 5 to 8 seconds. Add butter, and blend until thoroughly emulsified; add more butter if necessary. Press the urchin-butter mixture through a sieve with a spatula.
Bake the whole sea urchins 4 to 5 minutes.
Meanwhile, combine stock, cream, cayenne, salt, and pepper, to taste, in a small saucepan over medium heat. Add urchin-butter mixture, stirring constantly, until resulting emulsion thickens. Adjust seasoning; add lemon juice.
Remove sea urchins from oven. Arrange them on a bed of seaweed, drizzle with Sea Urchin Butter, and garnish with lemon halves.
Serves 2.

[Skimmer Juice]

not sure if they are symbiotic but my shrimp is always riding on the urchin .
Also my urchin goes literally everywhere he is visible quit often even though they do borough . Don't really have issues with it knocking stuff over which is nice

[reefwars]

ive kept a rock boring urchin in my overflow for about going on 3 yrs now lol he lives in a 8 x 6 x 12 box , there's nothing in there but coraline for him to eat and i dont feed the urchin anything and often forget hes in there for months on end just to keep finding him alive and bigger than before lol i use to pick him out of there but he kept insisting on going back so stay there he did