Urchin ID?

[TimT]

It's an Echinometra mathaei. Common burrowing urchin or boring urchin. They tend to come in as tiny juveniles in corals etc. Then they grow out in your tank.

[FishyFishy!]

Yeah im going with rock boring. I put a piece of live rock in my frag tank to test it and he was instantly burrowed into the cracks. Cool looking urchin though.

[kien]

I don't know what you guys are talking about. That urchin doesn't look boring at all. It looks quite exciting to me.

[FishyFishy!]

Originally Posted by kien

I don't know what you guys are talking about. That urchin doesn't look boring at all. It looks quite exciting to me.

Hahahaha

[Skimmer Juice]

I have had that urchin for about 8 years now , they are really cool and my bumble bee shrimp hangs out in him . Go get a bumblebee shrimp from oceans so he can have a driver lol

[FishyFishy!]

Originally Posted by Skimmer Juice

I have had that urchin for about 8 years now , they are really cool and my bumble bee shrimp hangs out in him . Go get a bumblebee shrimp from oceans so he can have a driver lol

Do they have a symbiotic relationship in the wild? I'll have to look into that. Seems like he'll be hiding in the rock a lot. I added a piece into the frag tank and he went right to it and burrowed

[kien]

Originally Posted by Skimmer Juice

I have had that urchin for about 8 years now , they are really cool and my bumble bee shrimp hangs out in him . Go get a bumblebee shrimp from oceans so he can have a driver lol

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

[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...