Urchin ID?

FishyFishy! · #1 04-01-2015, 11:42 PM

Anyone know what kind of urchin this is?

toytech · #2 04-02-2015, 12:08 AM

Rock boring urchin?

kien · #3 04-02-2015, 12:16 AM

Looks like a Purple Collector Urchin.

Skimmin · #4 04-02-2015, 12:17 AM

2nd the rock boring urchin.

TimT · #5 04-02-2015, 12:31 AM

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! · #6 04-02-2015, 04:06 AM

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 · #7 04-02-2015, 04:40 AM

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! · #8 04-02-2015, 01:43 PM

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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 · #9 04-02-2015, 03:32 PM

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! · #10 04-02-2015, 03:40 PM

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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