Urchin carrying xenia

[Nick Steele]

Hello so it looks like my urchin has detached a stall of my xenia and has started carrying it all around the tank. While I don’t mind this I just don’t want him to lose it in one of my other corals that I appreciate more then the xenia.

How long will he keep hold of the xenia before he drops it?

Should I just remove it?

Pics below of said urchin carrying it around.

 

[Hairyteeth]

He will drop it somewhere eventually just dont forget about it…if you try and pull it off it’ll prob rip a couple sucker arms with it, not the end of the world,
If I had to bet he’ll drop it by eod

 

[Nick Steele]

He will drop it somewhere eventually just dont forget about it…if you try and pull it off it’ll prob rip a couple sucker arms with it, not the end of the world,
If I had to bet he’ll drop it by eod

He’s had it for about 5-7 days already lol

 

[Hairyteeth]

Wow he really likes it lol…. Maybe time to take action

 

[Karen00]

We need more emoticons. I needed one that combined the Haha, Hugs and Wow all in one for this. You might find it hard to tell the difference between the urchin and xenia soon. Maybe he'll find something else he feels more suitable to adorn himself with. Did it look weird seeing the xenia going for a walkabout around your tank? ;-)

 

[Nick Steele]

We need more emoticons. I needed one that combined the Haha, Hugs and Wow all in one for this. You might find it hard to tell the difference between the urchin and xenia soon. Maybe he'll find something else he feels more suitable to adorn himself with. Did it look weird seeing the xenia going for a walkabout around your tank? ;-)

Well all my xenia is actually walking around the tank (back glass really). It started in lower right corner of tank and is now patches all over the whole right side of back wall.

 

[dakoop]

My urchin wore a zoa hat for a while. Kids thought it was hilarious

 

[gavinz]

Hello so it looks like my urchin has detached a stall of my xenia and has started carrying it all around the tank. While I don’t mind this I just don’t want him to lose it in one of my other corals that I appreciate more then the xenia.

How long will he keep hold of the xenia before he drops it?

Should I just remove it?

Pics below of said urchin carrying it around.

Just got me one and he already took off with my favorite mushroom!!

 

[Nick Steele]

They sure love to carry things!

Mine finally dropped the xenia at around 12 days and proceeded to pickup some cyano which I removed.

 

[SlugSnorter]

Hello so it looks like my urchin has detached a stall of my xenia and has started carrying it all around the tank. While I don’t mind this I just don’t want him to lose it in one of my other corals that I appreciate more then the xenia.

How long will he keep hold of the xenia before he drops it?

Should I just remove it?

Pics below of said urchin carrying it around.

Urchins like hats, and will carry it around until it finds another. you can buy urchin hats for it to use if you like

 

[sfin52]

My rock boring urchin never picks up things. I wonder if it's just certain types that will walk off with things.

 

[Anemone_Fanatic]

My blue tuxedo urchin has a lovely algae hat. It tried to get an acan frag, but it was too heavy.

 

[Hairyteeth]

Time to start calling cyphastrea encrusted hats I’m thinking!

 

[A Young Reefer]

Mine would just keep carrying the same anacropora frag and then dropping it somewhere I can barely reach. Sometimes I feel that it does it on purpose, sigh..

 

[Hairyteeth]

Mine would just keep carrying the same anacropora frag and then dropping it somewhere I can barely reach. Sometimes I feel that it does it on purpose, sigh..

That what mine keeps yanking currently too lol

 

[Nick Steele]

Well now it looks like both urchins have picked up new hats!

 

[A Young Reefer]

Today my urchin went hat shopping and look at what it found!

 

[Nick Steele]

Today my urchin went hat shopping and look at what it found!

They sure are characters! Mine have opted for cyano hats recently haha