pencil urchins eating coral?

kcfehring · 02/20/2007, 08:57 PM

I got a nice little finger leather frag at Aquariaums and it was doing really well until I noticed one of my pencil urchins on top of it today. I took it off as soon as I saw it, but it looks like it ate part of it. It was sucked down real small and has opened up some since I removed the urchin, but it looks like part of it is gone. Is it still just sucked down or will they acturally eat it?

BabyB · 02/21/2007, 05:11 PM

pu eat coral

nIx_tank · 02/21/2007, 06:49 PM

I had a pencil urchin in my main tank for over a year, and no fatalities, not including the coraline. Pushed frags over like no tomorrow, but never ate on them.

Mine could have been pure luck, but it wouldn't surprise me if a pencil urchin lunched on some corals.

02/20/2007, 08:57 PM	#1
kcfehring Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Tonkawa, Oklahoma Posts: 260	pencil urchins eating coral? I got a nice little finger leather frag at Aquariaums and it was doing really well until I noticed one of my pencil urchins on top of it today. I took it off as soon as I saw it, but it looks like it ate part of it. It was sucked down real small and has opened up some since I removed the urchin, but it looks like part of it is gone. Is it still just sucked down or will they acturally eat it?

02/21/2007, 05:11 PM	#2
BabyB Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: okc Posts: 84	pu eat coral __________________ Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. _ ~Mark Twain Current Tank Info: 220 reef tank, 10 fowlr, 9 gallon cherry shrimp tank, 55 gallon planted tank

02/21/2007, 06:49 PM	#3
nIx_tank Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Stillwater, OK Posts: 646	I had a pencil urchin in my main tank for over a year, and no fatalities, not including the coraline. Pushed frags over like no tomorrow, but never ate on them. Mine could have been pure luck, but it wouldn't surprise me if a pencil urchin lunched on some corals.