Ever got stung by an Urchin?

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I quickly learned that sticking my hand blindly behind the aquascape is a bad idea. I didn't enjoy pulling the little spine out of my finger, and I'm sure my little menace of an urchin didn't enjoy losing that spine, either. :upside-down-face:
 
I use to have long spine urchins in my tank and I got a few spines in the side of my hand. Felt like a bad hornet sting.
 
My belly was full of urchin spines from spending 300 or 400 hours under water. I also had an urchin collecting business using SCUBA.
"Urchin Searchin Enterprise" :beaming-face-with-smiling-eyes:
 
I have around eight pincushion urchins total. I haven’t been stung, but I did get poked a little one time while moving one. I’ve been curious if the stinging is mostly from us bumping into them, rather than them doing it purposefully?
 
When I was a kid, I stepped on one. The last bit of spine stayed in for weeks. I can’t really remember why my parents didn’t dig it out. lol
 
I heard you should "pee" on it immediately. releases the toxin. but no, I have not experienced the pain. watch the "Friends" episode on this.
 
I heard you should "pee" on it immediately. releases the toxin. but no, I have not experienced the pain. watch the "Friends" episode on this.
Stepped on a few surfing over the years… the peeing on it is real lore, but useless. The black spiny urchins in Barbados were the worst and there were thousands of them in the shore break at a break called soup bowls.
 
Stepped on a few surfing over the years… the peeing on it is real lore, but useless. The black spiny urchins in Barbados were the worst and there were thousands of them in the shore break at a break called soup bowls.
maybe they just wanted to pee on Monica? ;-)
 
On that note I may have told the story here about a member of our group that got reef rolled at that break. In addition to the hundreds of tiny cuts all over his body he also stepped on numerous urchins as he struggled to get to shore. The 80 year old wrinkled, raisin sun tanned Barbadian man standing on the beach yelling at him for being an idiot was also telling him to pee on his feet. As I said before, the entire spectacle of him getting rolled, walking in on the reef, bleeding from hundreds of tiny glistening paper cuts and wiggling in pain from the cuts and urchin stings was one of the greatest things have ever seen. As terrible as that sounds. I can still see it all in slo mo 30 years later.

We poured peroxide on him by the bottle full for days and he foamed like mentos and coke every time :rolling-on-the-floor-laughing: :rolling-on-the-floor-laughing: :rolling-on-the-floor-laughing: :rolling-on-the-floor-laughing:
 
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When I was a kid, I stepped on one. The last bit of spine stayed in for weeks. I can’t really remember why my parents didn’t dig it out. lol
The tiny pieces are hard to get and are easy to keep breaking with tweezers and can get pushed deeper and deeper due to being barbed. Sometime it is just best to let a pustule form and reject them naturally. At least that is what I was always told.
 
On that note I may have told the story here about a member of our group that got reef rolled at that break. In addition to the hundreds of tiny cuts all over his body he also stepped on numerous urchins as he struggled to get to shore. The 80 year old wrinkled, raisin sun tanned Barbadian man standing on the beach yelling at him for being an idiot was also telling him to pee on his feet. As I said before the entire spectacle of him getting rolled, walking in on the reef, bleeding from hundreds of tiny glistening paper cuts and wiggling in pain from the cuts and urchin stings was one of the greatest things have ever seen. As terrible as that sounds. I can still see it all in slo mo 30 years later.

We poured peroxide on him by the bottle full for days and he foamed like mentos and coke every time :rolling-on-the-floor-laughing: :rolling-on-the-floor-laughing: :rolling-on-the-floor-laughing: :rolling-on-the-floor-laughing:
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Did you wheel him off the beach?
 
some of those fire and flower urchins do look pretty cool. I can keep my hand out but not sure how fish would like those. currently I have 3 pencils and a pin. the tiny tuxedo I had enjoyed the flow of the wave maker too much. surprised he could even get in there. now he is a top hat for the Pin. RIP Tennessee Tuxedo!
 

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