Acro Urchin Attack ?!

[jhale]

I just noticed a large bite missing from one of my acro's.
The only thing I could blame would be the urchin which has grown
a little larger than a golf ball. Has any one else seen an urchin do this?

 

[noodleman]

:eat:

 

[reefman]

i have been contacted by your urchin and am representing it as its defending attorney.
what bases of evidence do u have in accusing my client of this act?

 

[LeslieS]

My urchins are willing to do jury duty in order to provide JH's urchin with a jury of it's peers.

 

[lfsmarineguy]

I've heard of it and seen it happen. What kind of urchin is it? Sometimes animals in captivity adapt and start doing things we wouldn't expect them to normally or start behaviors they didn't exhibit previously.

 

[fritz]

I've heard of it and seen it happen. What kind of urchin is it? Sometimes animals in captivity adapt and start doing things we wouldn't expect them to normally or start behaviors they didn't exhibit previously.

I object! The above is hearsay and is not admissible.

 

[drperetz]

...

I just noticed a large bite missing from one of my acro's.
The only thing I could blame would be the urchin which has grown
a little larger than a golf ball. Has any one else seen an urchin do this?

http://www.aquariumboard.com/forums/invertebrates/4916.htm

 

[reefman]

i have withdrawn from this case.
your urchin is on its own.:theyareon

 

[drperetz]

I've heard of it and seen it happen. What kind of urchin is it? Sometimes animals in captivity adapt and start doing things we wouldn't expect them to normally or start behaviors they didn't exhibit previously.

Definitely,especially when the fish swim to you, so u can pet them.




(Not recommended, due to the germs collected on your hands). :wink1:

 

[scarf_ace1981]

nice find drperetz.

j don't you have a trigger. i would have blamed the trigger first. don't they munch on sps too. i heard that's how they trim their teeth. i could be mistaken

 

[drperetz]

..

I also heard that triggers love to eat sps...??!!!

confirm...

 

[inline6]

Looks like a human bite mark.
Call the RCSI

 

[Pseudo]

Yes Triggers (some) will chew on SPS corals (not eat).
If you have a pencil urchin, it will EAT the crap out of all your sps.

Good luck,

Kasei

 

[russianmd]

I will prove that the aforementioned urchin is clinically insane - only a crazy, crazy lifeform would do that to Jon's animals...

To the asylum it goes (fuge?).

My urchins are willing to do jury duty in order to provide JH's urchin with a jury of it's peers.

 

[pnoyreefer]

ouch that gotta hurt..

 

[jhale]

this is the urchin, the trigger is new but I think it's too small to have done that.

 

[Wes]

it's weird this happened to you, i just found a big bite taken out of one of my acros, everyone is on close watch now.

 

[LeslieS]

JH, you've had him a long time and it's never happened before....

If you do decide that he needs a new home, he is welcome to come and live with his cousin snowball :smile:

 

[jhale]

Leslie the urchin I got from NWA died a while ago, this is one I got at GA.
It was a 1/4 of the size when I got it. It's been pigging out on all the coraline in my tank. If he needs a new home I'll let you know

 

[Dmitry]

That's stunning coloration on the urchin! Too bad it's a psycho! I'll be 2nd in line, though, if you decide to get rid of him. I won't have SPSs for it to eat.