I got one of these recently, 'cause they're neat and I had hoped that it would mow down my bryopsis. In the week or so it was in my tank it managed to rub the flesh off of chunks of several acro frags with its spines (observed in action,) chew off a hunk of a montipora (possibly undata)(seriously, chewed a chunk off the skeleton. Not observed, but there's nothing else in my tank that I can think of that has jaws capable of that,) stripped the flesh off part of another montipora, (observed in action,) and I have a feeling that it also may have killed or help kill most of the other montiporas in my tank, through feeding actions or through poking them with its spines. (I -did- find monti eating nudis in my tank, but I haven't seen any of them in the tank or on the monti frags, during the day or at night, for about a week, and I think most of them have been consumed by new tank additions. A lot of the flesh loss doesn't correspond with the way that nudis eat the corals, either.)
Between this and the nudis, pretty much all of my montis are toast. A few of them show flesh in the polyp-holes, so I'm hoping they may pull a lazarus. All of my acros are damaged but they shouldn't have a real problem recovering unless they RTN or something.
This urchin was one of the types with a black/grey anal bulb, and thin, attractive, neon-blue stripes (not dots) that appeared to run along the places where the plates that make up the test join. It had the usual jet black, long, sharp-assed and venomous spines.
And the mother-fragging SOB didn't even freaking eat the bryopsis.
Did I get some kind of evil urchin species masquerading as a diadema?
Between this and the nudis, pretty much all of my montis are toast. A few of them show flesh in the polyp-holes, so I'm hoping they may pull a lazarus. All of my acros are damaged but they shouldn't have a real problem recovering unless they RTN or something.
This urchin was one of the types with a black/grey anal bulb, and thin, attractive, neon-blue stripes (not dots) that appeared to run along the places where the plates that make up the test join. It had the usual jet black, long, sharp-assed and venomous spines.
And the mother-fragging SOB didn't even freaking eat the bryopsis.
Did I get some kind of evil urchin species masquerading as a diadema?
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