Urchin ate my acans!

thewedge · 04/28/2015, 09:39 AM

Just want to post this in case anyone else runs into the same issue down the line. I had a long spine urchin that I can definitively confirm ate 2 of my acans. He would have gotten a third but I pulled him off and immediately took him back to the LFS. I suspected it was him after my first one was taken out. Then one day I came home and found him on the skeleton of what was left of the second one. Didn't have time to deal with him then and 3 days later is when I found him on the third acan. I have a 65gal and had this guy for almost a year. He had gotten pretty big. Not sure if that contributed to his feeding frenzy. I have patches of short gha but it did seem like he wasn't interested in it for a while. I stopped noticing the rock being cleaned of gha.

snorvich · 04/28/2015, 10:48 AM

They love zooxanthellae.

04/28/2015, 09:39 AM	#1
thewedge Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2013 Posts: 26	Urchin ate my acans! Just want to post this in case anyone else runs into the same issue down the line. I had a long spine urchin that I can definitively confirm ate 2 of my acans. He would have gotten a third but I pulled him off and immediately took him back to the LFS. I suspected it was him after my first one was taken out. Then one day I came home and found him on the skeleton of what was left of the second one. Didn't have time to deal with him then and 3 days later is when I found him on the third acan. I have a 65gal and had this guy for almost a year. He had gotten pretty big. Not sure if that contributed to his feeding frenzy. I have patches of short gha but it did seem like he wasn't interested in it for a while. I stopped noticing the rock being cleaned of gha. __________________ Current tank: 65g lps/softie and 2 SPS

04/28/2015, 10:48 AM	#2
snorvich Team RC member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Outlander Posts: 40,953 Blog Entries: 46	They love zooxanthellae. __________________ Warmest regards, ~Steve~