My Urchin is a a Jerk!

[KingReef16]

I don’t know how many reefers keep an urchin in their tank, but I’m guessing quite a few. We have this little fellow. I thought he was super cool in the beginning. And don’t get me wrong, he’s a great member of the CUC, but he’s such a jerk! I cuss him out at least once a day. Every morning I check to see what coral frag he’s picked up and where it has ended up. He’s either carrying it around and I have to pry it away from him (as gently as possible) and/or I have frags scattered throughout the tank, turned upside down. I can’t even find my Monti frag. I think it’s in the back of the tank where I just can’t see it. I ended up moving all my frags back to the frag rack (which is very crowded now) but even that isn’t a safe place. He gets those too! He knocks over my larger corals too. Brain coral and hammer have been dumped into the sand more than once. And poor snails! I have found him carrying one of those around too. Poor dude died. I am threatening to take him to the lfs! I’ve about had it with him! I know if he’s carrying things around he’s happy and just doing sea urchin things, but man is it frustrating!

I just had to get this off my chest. It’s been bugging me for months. I feel slightly better now.

 

[ndrwater]

Urchins are jerks.. I think they do it on purpose just to see our silly faces

 

[Fritzhamer]

Mine likes to frag my montipora.

 

[James M]

Lots of Super glue comes in handy with a urchin

 

[Scorpius]

Gotta glue stuff down very securely with urchins. I move my blue tuxedo between my sump and main display as he decimates my coraline population.

 

[KingReef16]

Lots of Super glue comes in handy with a urchin

Gotta glue stuff down very securely with urchins. I move my blue tuxedo between my sump and main display as he decimates my coraline population.

Yeah I have glued my hammer and goniopora down but none of the frags or the brain coral. Mostly because I don’t know where to put them yet, so I was placing them and then seeing if they are happy where I put them before gluing. But this urchin is a bull in a china shop and making that very difficult. But I’m glad I’m not alone!

 

[James M]

Have you considered sumping him until you get all your coral into place

 

[KingReef16]

Have you considered sumping him until you get all your coral into place

Well I am now!

 

[ZoWhat]

Dont blame urchins, they naturally move things around bc the best algae fir thrm to eat is under unmount unsecured things.

Glue everything down or sell the urchin