Best urchins that are reef safe, eat a lot of algae and don’t die quickly

[doubleshot00]

I have a royal urchin that i move between two nanos (15gal and a 20gal). You obviously dont have enough algae to keep one alive.

 

[stewy14]

I had a bad case of turf algae in a 88gal and two pincusion urchins scrubbed it clean in about 4 weeks. Now I'm a bit concerned they'll turn to the good stuff but they did their job.

breed them and sell them make a "renting" business out of it, for 3$ a month or something

 

[stewy14]

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I have a royal urchin that i move between two nanos (15gal and a 20gal). You obviously dont have enough algae to keep one alive.

little guy got me through the initial ugly phase. Now, I just need a scraper(I have a magfloat) and tweezers

 

[doubleshot00]

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little guy got me through the initial ugly phase. Now, I just need a scraper(I have a magfloat) and tweezers

Magfloat is what i use and the tunze.

 

[Dburr1014]

Asking this cuz my pincushion just died, and I have a 11.4 gallon cube

How was it acclimated?
IME, they don't like quick changing sg.
Need to go slow dripping.
Check out those teeth!

 

[stewy14]

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How was it acclimated?
IME, they don't like quick changing sg.
Need to go slow dripping.
Check out those teeth!

it was acclimated 2 months ago with a temp and he was fine, and a week ago did a big water change cuz everything spiked. soooo

 

[Dragen Fiend]

wc can defiantly have an affect on them if the swing is large. Sometimes its necessary though.

I have a purple pincushion in my 15 gallon. Its dropped 20+ spines once due to some high nitrates in the system. I did a 50% wc and cutback on feedings. So far its growing back and healthy again. These guys are super sensitive and in my opinion are the first thing in my tank that show signs of a problem.

I'd just ensure its not starving if water chemistry is good. Between my snails, hermits and urchin. They are out munching my algae. I've had to supplement.

 

[Paul B]

This guy just died after 12 years. He was about 6" across and never knocked anything over. I think he tip toed over things.

 

[stewy14]

This guy just died after 12 years. He was about 6" across and never knocked anything over. I think he tip toed over things.

im sorry man, very. beautiful urchin too

 

[Paul B]

Thanks, I have been looking for another one but for some reason, can't find one yet.

 

[jonnywink]

Tuxedo are one of the best but they tend to drag frags and shells around. For me has been Pencil urchin

Algaebarn has small red and blue tuxedos that are raised in fishless tanks and don’t need to be quarantined.

 

[yellow tang lover]

Best urchin is texudo urchin I had mine for a year, and he is a algae destroyer, but he doesn’t eat bubble algae.

 

[JoJosReef]

But
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had a water change last week that lowered everything down cuz most things spiked. As in alk, salinity and that’s all

urchins are quite sensitive to salinity swings. You'll see them start dropping spines after a parameter swing and that's the first sign they're on their way out. I did a water change with LFS water without measuring the salinity first--it was 1.038sg--and that killed it in 2 days even after noticing the problem within a few hours and quickly doing another water change to bring the salinity in the tank back. That was when I started buying my own salt.

 

[Naekuh]

Thanks, I have been looking for another one but for some reason, can't find one yet.

cuz there all probably on the menu at some expensive sushi resturant.

 

[Charles Zinn]

Asking this cuz my pincushion just died, and I have a 11.4 gallon cube

May have run out of food?

 

[stewy14]

May have run out of food?

nope, bro had a buffet