I have a long spined sea urchin i have it from it was a baby the thing is some people told me to remove it form my tank because it will run out of algae and there will be no food for it i really love it..as long as it doesnt hurt anything ...first question it will hurt any soft coral? cause i am...

My sea urchin has a suction cup a snail shell a kenya tree bud and 2 small pieces of rock stuck to him. I thought it was kinda funny

. I just put a pink rose urchin in my tank and Is climbing the glass and is now at the top are they jumpers or is it just exploring

So far so good! My sea urchin wondering close to my rose bubble tip anemone is making me nervous. I'm more worried about him poking the anemone and hurting it. Will they get along? :poke:

so my sea urchin has been going around my live rock recently and often times leaving behind small white spots that are slightly raised. has anyone had experience with this? possibly eggs? its the only urchin in the tank and i dont know that they can reproduce asexually. any thoughts would be nice.

So... when I asked the hubby to bring home snails last week... he brought home snails, plus a rose sea urchin. As our LFS is not as "local" as we would like it to be, I couldn't take it back right away. So what the heck, I'll throw him in there and see what he does. (By the way, I didn't...

So I can't for the life of my figure out whatmy urchins are! It won't lwt mw upload a picture so ill describe them.. they have short spines and lool tiger stripped they both have white, Orange, and black spines. Some one help if you can! :fish:

I have a black and white sea urchin that I'm looking to trade for some coral. The sea urchin is one of the most bizarre creatures I've ever had in the tank. It will travel around the tank and pick up random shells, hermit crabs, rocks or anything that is light enough to be picked up and place it...

I feel like I'm posting way too much on this forum-but here we go... Backround information: Tank Size: 15 Gallon Powerheads/filter: Normal filter, tank has strong flow. Water Change: I change about five or six gallons every few days if I'm not busy but it can get delayed for a long time. Fish...

i wanted to ask if anyone has had or knows if urchin will eat hair algae. i have tried sea hares 3 times and each time they die in less than a week and dont do anything.... never had a urchin but someone suggested it to me. was thinking a tux urchin. let me know please

Sea Urching, beautiful black with long black "needles" is not moving for 3 days. I got him, and also 2 fishes, 2 shrimps 4 days ago as a new addition. He was very active and moving a lot on the rock the first day. Next morning I found him sitting lifelessly on the sand attached to the wall, not...

Hie guys, I've been into swf for 5 months and i have just overcome my diatom bloom. In the process i got 2 star fish ( I think its a choclate chip starfish, its brownish with hard blackish torns) 1 sea urchin, 4 turbos and 1 slug. My ammonia and nitrite has always been 0, nitrate in the 10-20...

Wondering if anyone can offer any advice. I was wanting to get some sort of sea urchin or feather duster... but I've been told sea urchin's are bad for a reef tank? And I was told my Copperband butterfly will eat my feather duster. Does anyone have any suggestions or imput? I keep reading...

Well, the title says it all. I'm looking for a tuxedo sea urchin. Has anyone seen one in one of the LFS? I dropped by Aquarium Oddities, but they had sold their last one already.

HI Everyone! I have a 150 reef tank and I'm having a bit a a algae problem(started another thread about that). This has made me wonder if I have enough guys and girls in my clean up crew? I have about 5 turbo snails and about 5 hermit crab along with a bullet goby and a sand sifting conch. Is...

could anyone tell me what this urchin is? i could not find anything remotely similar to it online or in the ID books i have. the closest i could find was Astropyga radiata, but this urchin's spines are of a uniform length & are not long. this urchin also doesn't do the "spine-bunching"...

We went on Vacation for a week. Had 120g reef tank on auto pilot other than a neighbor coming over to feed fish. Our chiller died....we think on either the first or second day we were gone. Our neighbor didn't realize until yesterday (day 6 of vacation). Needless to say the temp was 92 deg...

Because I was asked for I would like to show the members of TRT one ore two of my aquariums. All my friends of the other forum know me and my aquariums already very well. My journey with saltwater tanks started in the spring of 1986 with a 75gal. Fish tank.Topically I have 5 aquariums, three...

Hi my favorite type of fish fanatics (hope I spelt that right) anyway I am back on here because I am changing my freshwater 30 gallon tank to a saltwater so that my lil clownfish (chowder) can have alot more room. Now my question is, is 50 pounds of live rock too much for it? I am also adding...