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09-27-2005, 12:22 PM
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| | Coral Banded Shrimp
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Illinois Age: 30
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 |  Urchin Recommendations.
I'm interested in picking up a sea urchin for the tank. What type do you recommend? Also if you don't recommend getting an urchin of any type please post you input as well.
Thanks,
Sean
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90 gallon reef, mag 1800 main return pump, 10 gallon refugium + 10 gallon sump, CPR overflows, ASM G-1 skimmer, icecap 660 vho 440 watts. 130#LR and 60#LS. Corals: Finger Leather, Fat Finger Leather, Toadstool, flower pot sps coral, hairy mushrooms. Fish: Yellow tang, Bi-color angel, pecula clowns, royal gramma, coral beauty angel, yellow tail damsel, blue damsel, Sergeant Major Damsel. Misc. hermit crabs, snails, flame scallop, Xenia | 
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09-27-2005, 01:51 PM
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| | Flamingo Tongue
Join Date: Jun 2005
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| Re: Urchin Recommendations.
I had a blue globe in my nano and it died and I have no idea why...i've been told in my new tank to not get one as they will start losing spines and create havoc in my tank. (ammonia etc.)
I too am interested in the concensus of this forum as well though.
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Originally Posted by skennelly I'm interested in picking up a sea urchin for the tank. What type do you recommend? Also if you don't recommend getting an urchin of any type please post you input as well.
Thanks,
Sean |
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46gal Oceanic BF, 80lbs LR 2Lbs LS, 2 true percula, 1 six lined wrasse, 1 powder blue tang, crocea clam, green star polyps, torch coral, purple mushrooms, RBTA, Purple Condy, Nudibranch (Chromodoris lochi), Arrow Crab, 2 Peppermint Shrimp, Cleaner Shrimp, blood red fire shrimp, 10 nassarius snails, 8 margarita snails, 5 crown top snails, 12 burgundy, scarlet and blue legged hermits. 15H sump/refugium 2lb LR and ball-o-cheatomorpha. | |
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09-27-2005, 02:01 PM
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| | Whip-Lash Squid
Join Date: May 2004 Location: PhillySuburbs, Pennsylvania Age: 42
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| Re: Urchin Recommendations.
Just know that urchins will eat algae, including your coralline algae, leaving nice white trails through your pretty purple. They are also bulldozers for the most part, knocking over rocks and frags and such. 
Why did you want one? _________  I Love My Sig By John Hawkins!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Date Started 9/04 58 gallon Oceanic Tank, 20 gal DIY sump/fuge w/ Kent Marine Auto top-off, Air Water Ice RO/DI, 10,000 K 175 W MH, 2 VHO 03's 96W each, AquaC EV 120 Skimmer
80 lbs LR, DSB in FUGE, 1 - 2 " LS in tank
Black Brittle Star, Chevron Tang, Crocea Clam, red & green Lobophyllia, Frogspawn, Porites Frag, Caulastrea Frag, Green Ricordia, Asst. Zoas, hermits, astreas, stomatellas, fighting conch | |
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09-27-2005, 02:21 PM
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| | Coral Banded Shrimp
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Illinois Age: 30
Posts: 390
Karma: 87
| Re: Urchin Recommendations.
BL,
Well, I just got back from my honeymoon in Hawaii and did some snorkeling and there were urchins all over the reefs in Hawaii. My wife saw them and actually got to hold one at the Maui Ocean Center and we've been talking about getting one ever since.
But, I do know how smart it is to do some research before I run out to the lfs and buy one and possibly regret it.
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09-27-2005, 04:47 PM
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| | Fire Shrimp
Join Date: May 2005 Location: Atlanta, GA
Posts: 348
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| Re: Urchin Recommendations.
I have an urchin in my reef tank. It came with the live rock, and has since grown significantly. It is about 1.5 inches in diameter. To date, it has been harmless. I like it personally. :-) | |
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09-27-2005, 09:27 PM
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| | Plankton
Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Sydney, NSW,New_South_Wales
Posts: 22
Karma: 30
| Re: Urchin Recommendations.
I too had an urchin come in with my live rock. It started out smaller than the nail on my pinkie finger and has since grown to about the size of a fifty cent piece, if your in Oz, if not about about 30mm, if you use metric and if not again well its so many inches 
I have on occasion seen small patches of my coralline go white but not too much, it usually grows back pretty quickly.
As for knocking things over i've never really had that happen but maybe it is still to small to do so. | |
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09-28-2005, 05:24 AM
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| | 3reef Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Wethersfield, CT Age: 38
Posts: 6,348
 
| Re: Urchin Recommendations.
I would avoid urchins in a reef tank. If they don't knock your corals and such over, they will stick anything within reach to their backs for camoflage. I had a tuxedo urchin that once attached a 2" maxima clam to itself. Luckily, I was able to grab the clam before the urchin retreated to the back of the tank. More trouble than they're worth IME. | |
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