What is this sea urchin?

[ejl2529]

Can anyone tell me what specific kind of sea urchin this is and if it is reef safe. Thank you for the help!

 

[Rmckoy]

I have the exact same urchin.

But he wouldn’t stop knocking rocks and frags over so he’s in the sump with my return pump

 

[Keithb22]

Pencil urchin, workhorse.

 

[littlefishy]

What keithb22 said, but not always reefsafe. Mine started eating all macro, coraline, and I suspect some sps frags after a while. Turned him into the lfs.

 

[ejl2529]

Thank you all for your help.

 

[mcshams]

Ours ate a few corals.. Eats algae extremely well, and would knock literally EVERYTHING off rocks. So.. we retired him to the refugium.. where he/she/it gets to live happily eating all day/night without causing us headaches.

 

[Keithb22]

Well that may be the culprit behind a few rocks being relocated, little son of a gun

 

[mcshams]

Well that may be the culprit behind a few rocks being relocated, little son of a gun

Ours LITERALLY was a mini-bulldozer.

 

[Rmckoy]

Ours LITERALLY was a mini-bulldozer.

Exactly why Ours has been evicted and now makes the return chamber of our sump home .