Are these urchins reef safe???

[nanomania]

REEF SAFE???

 

[Roboson]

Are they hitch hikers or did you buy them?

 

[nanomania]

Im buyin them, not yet bought

 

[Roboson]

Ok, what species are they listed as?

 

[donnievaz]

Pretty sure that's a Banded Urchin.

http://www.aquariumdomain.com/viewMarineInvertSpecies.php?invert_marine_id=4

 

[Roboson]

Could be, but I've never seen pink longspines before.

 

[nanomania]

Pretty sure that's a Banded Urchin.

http://www.aquariumdomain.com/viewMarineInvertSpecies.php?invert_marine_id=4

Thanks bro, are they reef safe? they say it can kill inverts. I have anemone crab and brittle star and some shrimps. Shud i buy?

 

[donnievaz]

Thanks bro, are they reef safe? they say it can kill inverts. I have anemone crab and brittle star and some shrimps. Shud i buy?

I wouldn't but I wouldn't buy any Urchin. They bulldoze stuff over. Between that and the fact that they may eat your crabs and shrimp, I'd steer clear if I were you.

 

[nanomania]

Currently i have this short spine urchin, and its doing a great job.

I wouldn't but I wouldn't buy any Urchin. They bulldoze stuff over. Between that and the fact that they may eat your crabs and shrimp, I'd steer clear if I were you.

 

[donnievaz]

Currently i have this short spine urchin, and its doing a great job.

Like anything else in this hobby it's a gamble. If you're willing to take the chance go ahead and get it.

 

[Roboson]

They only eat sessile inverts. So feather dusters are at risk, but that's about it. Your shrimp and crabs are safe.

If they are banded long spines, they will get a bit large. Beyond that, there's not a whole lot of risk. They knock stuff over, that's their biggest danger.

 

[nanomania]

They only eat sessile inverts. So feather dusters are at risk, but that's about it. Your shrimp and crabs are safe.

If they are banded long spines, they will get a bit large. Beyond that, there's not a whole lot of risk. They knock stuff over, that's their biggest danger.

Corals?

 

[Roboson]

Not any more likely than any other urchin. If it was severely underfed then maybe, but you'd have be taking really bad care of it for it to go rogue on corals.

 

[revhtree Verified Admin]

Man I think urchins are cool but I probably won't get another one. I hate the way they knock everything over!

 

[locito277]

Don't they inadvertently stab your corals? Never had one

 

[Maritimer]

Mine are only tuxedo urchins, but I've never had them stab anything - they're pretty gentle with the spines. They do knock stuff over though! Push a frag-plug with a zoanthid colony on it into the sandbed, find it on its side three inches away the next morning . . .

Find your acan-lords upside-down in a bed of palys the following day . . .

~Bruce, frustrated

 

[themcnertney]

Your tank is to small.

 

[nanomania]

Your tank is to small.

24" cube

 

[scardall]

In a FOWLR , yes. Reef no, because they are like a bull dosser and will eat coraline as well. sorry

 

[Fercho]

In my experience, they clean rocks super good, they eat coraline algae and the occational green algae that grows on the rocks.
In other words, they keep my tank super clean.
But yes, they do knock frags over.

Forgot to mention, they do not harm any of my corals.