Sea Urchin White Cloud

seancc317 · Oct 30, 2013

Hey everyone, I was just hitting a bunch of Aiptasia with Aiptasia-X. During this, I noticed my Sea Urchin releasing a white cloud. As this is the first time i witnessed this I'm concerned/curious. Just want to make sure it won't harm my other inhabitants. Please help if you have experience with this.

ritter6788 · Oct 30, 2013

Attempting to spawn?

seancc317 · Oct 30, 2013

Put him outside the tank and the cloud is settled in this pic.

TrishW · Oct 30, 2013

It is harmless. Mine does it all the time. Well, he does it alot, probably two or more times a month that I see. It has never had a negative effect on anything in my tank and I have a little bit of everything.

seancc317 · Oct 30, 2013

TrishW said:
It is harmless. Mine does it all the time. Well, he does it alot, probably two or more times a month that I see. It has never had a negative effect on anything in my tank and I have a little bit of everything.

Thanks for the quick response. I guess I'll put him back in lol. I was worried it was some sort of defense mechanism of mass destruction.

TrishW · Oct 30, 2013

Mine has done it when nothing was out of the ordinary but I have also witnessed him do that when I had my arm in the tank and he probably didn't like it. He finally started munching on sps so I had to banish him to the settling tank. He will live a happy, fat life of eating seawood rubber banded to a rock unless I decide to place him back in the display. I can't make myself give him away because he is my favorite critter.