Who Gets the Urchin Bug :)

[gklaw]

So Anthony got the wrasse bug, now I get the urchin bug. I won't have to worry about mine jumping out of the tank - I hope. Here are the collection thus far.

[TomC]

Great pictures. I like the last one.

[Momobobo]

Gorgeous, definately something on my list to keep if I ever go salt water, hard to keep compared to the livestock?

[monkE]

very cool stuff

[gklaw]

Gorgeous, definately something on my list to keep if I ever go salt water, hard to keep compared to the livestock?

I only tried it once before and that lasted for one week. I am a bit more careful this time around - dripping them 2-4 hours to climatize. The 1st and 4th have been there since Dec 26/27.

The purple-green one was picked up today at JL - thanks to Peter Jones for alerting me to it and letting me have it

[target]

very cool. I have heard they move around a lot and can disrupt other corals.

[InfraredDream]

These are gorgeous! Thanks for sharing, great pictures! How you keep stuff like that? I am so clueless... Do you feed them anything specific and all that? Off to read about it. Too curious!

[gklaw]

very cool. I have heard they move around a lot and can disrupt other corals.

The do knock off the little loss piece but not way they could move those attached to a decent sized rock. #1 and #2 also have sticky tentacles that tend to pick up loose pieces. #4 actaully traverse the glass surface as well, cleaning algae I hope.

They are great grazers but chew right down to bare rock - i.e they tends to consume the priced purple coralline. That's just a price I have to pay for these guys for now

[InfraredDream]

WOW, probably fascinating to watch...

[thefishwife]

Those are really beautiful! Are they all like an algae clean up?