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06/20/2017, 06:53 PM
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First urchin question
My daighter wanted a sea urchin so we got a blue tuxedo urchin. It is my first urchin and i was curious what this is attached to it. It is like purple sheets with green strings coming out see picture below.
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06/20/2017, 07:00 PM
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Is that how you bought it?
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06/20/2017, 07:13 PM
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Yes, bought it with that on it but the green string were not sticking out and visable. I tried googling but dont even know what to ask sea urchin with purple and green tentacles didnt show much
Last edited by thommyboy12183; 06/20/2017 at 07:26 PM. |
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06/20/2017, 07:54 PM
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It looks like it's wearing corals(?) as a "hat". They like to pick up things around the tank and wear them for "camouflage". Mine once attempted to wear an entire thermometer for a while, and another one is still wearing a discarded shrimp shedding.
If you google "tuxedo urchin camouflage" you'll see a lot of similar cases of things like shells and rocks, and sometimes corals, being worn like a fancy hat. This thread is one of my favorite examples. |
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06/20/2017, 08:10 PM
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Thank yourobotic chimera. Great thread and makes sense now. How the tough part is going to be ID'ing his hat has a new addition to my tank also.
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06/20/2017, 08:12 PM
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I am thinking possibly green star polyps
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06/21/2017, 12:03 PM
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The beautiful purple base and the shorter green tentacles. Our long tentacle GSP has a more dull tannish purple base but the tentacles wave in the current nicely. The Tuxedo made drop it somewhere you don't want it to adhere to. I got mine to encrust on live rock after a week just by wedging it in a tight space. Ours is "trapped" at the top of a live rock pinnacle. If yours starts low in the tank it has a tendency to creep up and over everything, smothering whatever it grows over. Except maybe Galaxia? ;-) If it is on a fairly smooth live rock surface you may be able to simply peel it up and remove most of it. A lot of people start it in the sand bed far away from the rocks and let it oose over that for a while. Sent from my SM-G920V using Tapatalk |
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06/30/2017, 06:14 AM
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Ghank youfor the update i will keep an eye out for that so far still kn urchin and all doing good.
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