UPDATE: Every response I receive confirming the balls are poop gets to play a part of the mounting evidence that I just spent multiple hours of my life staring at, photographing, and squishing urchin feces (multiple times) with my bare hands. Then I posted about it online for all to see.
whaaaat am I looking at? An urchin I have had for 5 years has a fountain of round cream colored white spheres coming out of the top of it… I’ve never seen this before and it’s captivating. It’s been happening at a rapid pace for about an hour with no end in sight.
Is it pooping for the first time in years and making up for lost time by expelling 5 years worth of poop in one glorious fountain? ( kidding- kind of haha)
Am I just seeing it poop for the first time because I’ve just never noticed before?
I am dying to know what I’m seeing.
I netted some of it out and took a close up photo. It’s a different color than the sand and I grabbed a single ball with tweezers and squished it and it fell apart into a creamy greenish slimy substance. There wasn’t any sand in it at all!
I’m attaching pics of the balls as well as a video of it happening in real time.
The video!:
whaaaat am I looking at? An urchin I have had for 5 years has a fountain of round cream colored white spheres coming out of the top of it… I’ve never seen this before and it’s captivating. It’s been happening at a rapid pace for about an hour with no end in sight.
Is it pooping for the first time in years and making up for lost time by expelling 5 years worth of poop in one glorious fountain? ( kidding- kind of haha)
Am I just seeing it poop for the first time because I’ve just never noticed before?
I am dying to know what I’m seeing.
I netted some of it out and took a close up photo. It’s a different color than the sand and I grabbed a single ball with tweezers and squished it and it fell apart into a creamy greenish slimy substance. There wasn’t any sand in it at all!
I’m attaching pics of the balls as well as a video of it happening in real time.
The video!:
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