Urchin ID

[reeferRob]

I have an urchin that hitchiked in on some rock that has been in there for a while! I finally took it out and put it in my QT. I wonder if some could ID it wihout a picture, it has a dark almost black body with like green spines. The urchin is about the size of a ping pong ball and the spines are about .5 long. Any Ideas?

Thanks
Rob

[reeferRob]

Well I found it, now what to do with it?

http://www.poppe-images.com/images/image_info.php?picid=935387

[tony]

thats a rock borer, i kept one in my tank for over a year. he will bore a hole in a rock and then come out at night to graze on algea. mine was fine until i caught him on my backglass eating my corraline. i took him to an lfs. they say on occasion someone will come in looking for one.

a little more info: http://www.melevsreef.com/id/clams.html

[reeferRob]

thats a rock borer, i kept one in my tank for over a year. he will bore a hole in a rock and then come out at night to graze on algea. mine was fine until i caught him on my backglass eating my corraline. i took him to an lfs. they say on occasion someone will come in looking for one.

a little more info: http://www.melevsreef.com/id/clams.html


Yep, that's exactly what he did too! I really didn't care that it was there he just kept knocking my A. secale over onto my M. cap and causing undo coral stress. He had to go