Pencil Urchins

Aqua_Man · 08-24-2001, 02:10 PM

Are Pencil Urchins reef safe? Or will they eat my Feather Dusters?

icemark · 08-24-2001, 04:54 PM

Bit of a BullDozer, and has a tendancy to knock off or over everything.

I generally wouldn't recommend one unless the tank was very large and the rock was all cemented very solid in place.

They will also tend to eat coraline, and any Macros you might have. I haven't heard of them eating feather dusters... But you never know... maybe if it got hungry enough.

Iron Crab · 08-24-2001, 09:05 PM

I agree with icemark. I took mine back. It was like a ball of sandpaper moving over my LR. Stripped it down to the rock. Don't know if it ate my small dusters but it mowed them over.

fishguy_8 · 08-26-2001, 02:47 PM

interesting....they are bulldozers ehhh...think they'd kill some aptaisia?
Jon

Iron Crab · 08-28-2001, 07:32 PM

Jon, Don't know about the aptaisia. The urchin would cause more damage than it is worth. I'm not sure but I think my urchin was slowly reducing my LR to sand.

fishguy_8 · 08-28-2001, 11:05 PM

well see i have a fo with no lr. in it....and if i could get a few pounds in there and have a urchin scrape it clean i'd be willing to lose a pound or so of rock if i could clean a entire portion and then i could put the peice back into the reef....obviously i need something to get the rest of it because it'd be useless to clean off one rock and have 10 others covered in it cuz it'd get covered in no time but if i could clean one maybe i could keep it in the fo and make it a mini reef. or is this not a possibility.
Jon

Iron Crab · 08-30-2001, 07:44 PM

Jon, I wouldn't mind having a pencil urchin in a fo but as far as cleaning your LR - there has to be a better or quicker way. My urchin never cleared a whole rock. It mowed over it and sometimes the rock was grown over before it returned to that rock again. I found it a little unsightly to see these mower trails over the landscape. If you have a bad antaisia problem I would check into the animals that target them as prey instead of the random movements of an urchin. Bill

08-24-2001, 02:10 PM	#1
Aqua_Man Tenant Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Whittier, CA USA Posts: 55	Pencil Urchins Are Pencil Urchins reef safe? Or will they eat my Feather Dusters?

08-24-2001, 04:54 PM	#2
icemark Governor Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Rohnert Park, CA, USA Posts: 1,102	Bit of a BullDozer, and has a tendancy to knock off or over everything. I generally wouldn't recommend one unless the tank was very large and the rock was all cemented very solid in place. They will also tend to eat coraline, and any Macros you might have. I haven't heard of them eating feather dusters... But you never know... maybe if it got hungry enough. __________________ Play well Mark www.mazdamark.com

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08-24-2001, 09:05 PM	#3
Iron Crab Council Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: N.W. Pennsylvania, USA Posts: 434	I agree with icemark. I took mine back. It was like a ball of sandpaper moving over my LR. Stripped it down to the rock. Don't know if it ate my small dusters but it mowed them over.

08-26-2001, 02:47 PM	#4
fishguy_8 Governor Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Illinois Posts: 2,205	interesting....they are bulldozers ehhh...think they'd kill some aptaisia? Jon

08-28-2001, 07:32 PM	#5
Iron Crab Council Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: N.W. Pennsylvania, USA Posts: 434	Jon, Don't know about the aptaisia. The urchin would cause more damage than it is worth. I'm not sure but I think my urchin was slowly reducing my LR to sand.

08-28-2001, 11:05 PM	#6
fishguy_8 Governor Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Illinois Posts: 2,205	well see i have a fo with no lr. in it....and if i could get a few pounds in there and have a urchin scrape it clean i'd be willing to lose a pound or so of rock if i could clean a entire portion and then i could put the peice back into the reef....obviously i need something to get the rest of it because it'd be useless to clean off one rock and have 10 others covered in it cuz it'd get covered in no time but if i could clean one maybe i could keep it in the fo and make it a mini reef. or is this not a possibility. Jon

08-30-2001, 07:44 PM	#7
Iron Crab Council Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: N.W. Pennsylvania, USA Posts: 434	Jon, I wouldn't mind having a pencil urchin in a fo but as far as cleaning your LR - there has to be a better or quicker way. My urchin never cleared a whole rock. It mowed over it and sometimes the rock was grown over before it returned to that rock again. I found it a little unsightly to see these mower trails over the landscape. If you have a bad antaisia problem I would check into the animals that target them as prey instead of the random movements of an urchin. Bill

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