Urchin

[emm0909]

Anyone have any troubles with urchins in their tanks? I have a 75 Gal reef tank and am looking at the urchins available on this site. I know they will eat the coraline but I'm not too concerned with that. Will they cause any other problems... wil they hurt corals?

 

[emm0909]

::Bump
Does anyone have an urchin?

 

[bigarn]

they can be little bulldozers with rockwork and corals but that's about it.

 

[rudedog40]

My pencil urchin crawls all over my tank. Hasn't knocked anything over as of yet.

 

[cpbirds407]

I just ordered a longspine urchin too. I hope it won't cause a problem in my reeftank!!!

 

[dennis210]

Have had urchins in the past. They are great grazers! My only problem was the fact that anything not glued down was "relocated" many times. I finally donated them to other new tanks with algal problems.

 

[geckopsu]

I'm just about to return my long spine urchin (today actually). I've had him for 14 months but within the last two, he has eaten all my mushrooms, two red brains, a torch, and all but one blastomusa. The things got a taste for $$$ things.
I see you live in Rochester. I'll sell him to you for $5 it you want one still.
I'm definitely not saying that this is normal. I've never heard of another one doing this.

 

[emm0909]

I just picked up two purple urchins from this site while I was in an order. I figured I'd give them a try.