Show me what your urchin carries around!

SashimiTurtle · Aug 12, 2017

I have two urchins in my tank, one blue tuxedo and one pin cushion. They are the best part of my CUC and are doing a great job of demolishing my hair algae, but my pin cushion keep picking up cerith snails and holding them upside down on his back. The tuxedo just puts algae on his shell. It's still amusing, and there's no way I'd ever get rid of him. My fiancee is attached as well. What does your urchin carry around the tank?

Heather Sheehan · Aug 12, 2017

Snails And frags and anything not bolted down!! Always excited to see what hat it's wearing!

Gweeds1980 · Oct 18, 2017

Had to resurrect this thread after getting home to this!!

Yes, that's an entire toadstool he's dragging around!

Dash · Oct 19, 2017

I love my tuxedo - he is a cleaning machine

And stays a nice small size.

Here he is as Jack in the Box (the white trails are the parts of the rock he's cleaned!)

He carried around a very perplexed hermit. (I finally rescued the poor guy)

Spike is skilled at fragging up a new hat (he did this one before I ever had the guts to try it out myself. You can see where he took it from haha)

Sometimes he doesn't know when to stop

I wish I could find a little reef-safe top hat for him. He'd rock it

Alakai · Oct 19, 2017

Lol. I want one now! That's to funny

DracoKat · Nov 8, 2017

I'll play with my newest urchin. Had him for a few weeks, and so far he's been picking up scraps of epoxy.

today I had to pull a frag plug off him.

SashimiTurtle · Nov 8, 2017

Nice. Mine is currently carrying around a chunk of super glue it found from somewhere...

75galOCD · Nov 9, 2017

Mine is a show off! The turbo is just grooming

Dash · Nov 13, 2017

Spike is still being his helpful self. Here he is finding up a hermit molt for me

Dash · Nov 13, 2017

Here he is annoying the blenny by insisting on cleaning his shell house. The blenny pecked at him for a while but finally gave up. Shell was nice and clean though