Is this a friend or a foe?

thmh · #1 10-31-2013, 05:19 AM

Is this a badie?

~Tony

The Grizz · #2 10-31-2013, 05:42 AM

Looks like a tiny long spike urchin to me, notorious for moving corals and eating coraline. Personal I like them but when they get big they are a PITA.

lpsreefer · #3 10-31-2013, 05:57 AM

Black pencil urchin is what it looks like to me. Eucidaris tribuloides
Or try looking up. Echinometra sp.

asylumdown · #4 10-31-2013, 06:12 AM

It kind of looks like a rock boring urchin to me, but it's hard to tell in that light. Is it uniformly black in real life or does it have any colour to it?

mrhasan · #5 10-31-2013, 06:13 AM

Did you eat too much of those popcorn tony?

thmh · #6 10-31-2013, 06:29 AM

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Originally Posted by asylumdown

It kind of looks like a rock boring urchin to me, but it's hard to tell in that light. Is it uniformly black in real life or does it have any colour to it?

It's 100% black

Quote:

Originally Posted by mrhasan

Did you eat too much of those popcorn tony?

Yes I had a lot of those!

~Tony

eli@fijireefrock.com · #7 10-31-2013, 06:38 AM

I have 2 of those in my system came on a wild coral shipments...harmless between all my rock work never bothered anything...neat and interesting species.