Injured urchin

[Richard Hercher]

My urchin fought a power head and the power head won. Is he a goner? He’s about 3inches across, spine to spine.

 

[James M]

Just keep an eye on him...when they die the will lose there spines

 

[lolgranny]

Looks healthy to me.

 

[mark vincent muriel]

their real body is actually inside that sphere... the out side is just a shell and they can actually regrow their spine when destroyed... i red that in just one day you already sea the new growth

 

[Richard Hercher]

their real body is actually inside that sphere... the out side is just a shell and they can actually regrow their spine when destroyed... i red that in just one day you already sea the new growth

Thanks for the heads up! We are urchin-shy around here: one died a few years ago, and we just took a big beautiful purple urchin back after not eating/losing spines for a week after acclimating. So far he’s been incredibly active and stripping any algae he can find off my rocks (lots of white rock,
Might start adding some bottled coralline soon)