Strangest thing your urchin has picked up!?

[kamakazian]

So I bought a pincushion sea urchin about a month ago. My LFS told me it might eat corraline algae (confirmed) and it might also try to pick up soft corals to "camouflage" itself (confirmed!!). Mine decided to grab some clove polyps and keep on trucking! It hasn't let go of it for weeks lol.

What other weird things have your sea urchins picked up??

 

[Kzoo]

 

[tdileo]

A plastic lid from one of those deli cups. I bought an anemone and when I was removing it, it regurgitated a crab and hurt itself pretty badly. It was healing in a little cup and one night the urchin pulled the lid off and I haven’t taken it back yet lol

 

[kireek]

Usually I just see them pick up bits of crushed coral.Once in awhile though.....

 

[vector824]

Picked up my paly frag!

 

[Joshua Kerstetter]

I don't have pics, but once mine picked up a snail, that had picked up a snail, that had picked up a snail, worst aquatic centipede reference ever.

 

[Kyl]

I saw this one on imgur a few weeks back:

 

[Shawn Heckman]

He likes to know the temp.

 

[wowkingjames]

Awesome.....

 

[kamakazian]

I don't have pics, but once mine picked up a snail, that had picked up a snail, that had picked up a snail, worst aquatic centipede reference ever.

lol!! I'm so happy I started this post...

 

[vector824]

So guess what happened THIS MORNING?

That's right! I caught Dan the Urchin giving Sean the Torch a piggy back ride.

 

[Tuffyyyyy]

He likes to know the temp.

Poor little guy. Must have been feeling under the weather. Mine picked up a 6" Gorgonia frag last night.

 

[ZoWhat]

I caught an urchin trying to pick up my wife one night....saying to her, "Howa yooooooou doin'?"