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Old 10-31-2013, 04:19 AM
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Is this a badie?

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Old 10-31-2013, 04:42 AM
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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.
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Old 10-31-2013, 04:57 AM
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Black pencil urchin is what it looks like to me. Eucidaris tribuloides
Or try looking up. Echinometra sp.
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Old 10-31-2013, 05:12 AM
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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?
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Old 10-31-2013, 05:13 AM
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Did you eat too much of those popcorn tony?
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Old 10-31-2013, 05:29 AM
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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






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Did you eat too much of those popcorn tony?
Yes I had a lot of those!


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Old 10-31-2013, 05:38 AM
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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.
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Old 10-31-2013, 05:39 AM
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It kind of looks like a rock boring urchin to me
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Old 10-31-2013, 08:03 AM
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+2 I have 3 of them in my tank from liverock
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Old 10-31-2013, 02:09 PM
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