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Old 11-08-2013, 07:07 PM
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Default Stupid urchin

I thought my clowns had quit laying eggs for some reason. I seen last week she was eating like crazy and pretty large again. Sure enough she layed a batch and they were tending them that night when I last seen them.

Next day when I look, they are having a fit, even {or so its seemed}, looking to me for help. My stupid urchin was in their pipe, eating for all its worth. Not my blue tuxedo but the larger version.

Poor clowns were helpless against it. He never moved for several days, I assume eating eggs until they were all gone.

Guess who is next to be "all gone"...
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Old 11-08-2013, 07:15 PM
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That's too bad Doug.
Were you going to see if you could raise the fry?
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Old 11-08-2013, 07:24 PM
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http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XzoHLuY...%3DXzoHLuYP-fI
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Old 11-08-2013, 07:32 PM
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A timely end, but it would not pass the "sight" test for me
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Old 11-08-2013, 08:13 PM
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YESSS! FRY THE CRAP OUT OF THAT THING Maybe even feed it to the clowns.......fresh raw revenge!
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Old 11-08-2013, 09:32 PM
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hate urchins, pokey annoying creatures, knocking things over all the time and killed our copperband butterfly...get rid of it lol snails do just as good a job as urchins do without the bs lol
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Old 11-08-2013, 10:43 PM
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I love my tuxedo urchin but I can see why so many people have a hate affair with urchins.
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Old 11-08-2013, 11:14 PM
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I love my tuxedo urchin but I can see why so many people have a hate affair with urchins.
I'm developing one with my long spine. I don't mind him knocking things over but the little bugger is chowing down on all my coraline...
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Old 11-08-2013, 11:16 PM
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Just traded in my urchin. The one with thick red stubby "spines". It mostly went around eating coraline algae.
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Old 11-09-2013, 01:06 AM
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I buy small urchins, let them roam around and mow things down till theyre big and trade them back in. lol.
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