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Cool hitchhiker found on new live rock


chrisinmd

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So im setting up a new tank it's a 12"x12" cube. Well i went out tuesday i went to my lfs and bought a peice of live rock and brought it home and found a snail on it witch i thought nice free snail. Well tonight i was looking at the tank looking for other hitchhikers and saw what looked like small furry dot on the rock so i plucked it out and put it in a small glass dish to look at it closer. To my suprise it was a baby urchin :D im not sure if its a long spine or a pencil too small for me too tell. So i started looking around for others and i can find 7 so far. Now i can't wait for them to get bigger so i know what i have. the only problem i can see is as they grow thire going to out grow the tank so im going to have to get rid of the sooner or later.

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I would have posted pic's but yesterday moring my 2 year old thought my brand new moto droid need a bath so as soon as my new phone gets here i will post up some pics it should be some time today

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TheUnfocusedOne
I would have posted pic's but yesterday moring my 2 year old thought my brand new moto droid need a bath so as soon as my new phone gets here i will post up some pics it should be some time today

 

ouch.... :(

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demonclownfish

there are micro urchins out there and it is very possible that these are them. they may grow no larger than a penny or they may grow big. but my bet is on them being micro's.

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there are micro urchins out there and it is very possible that these are them. they may grow no larger than a penny or they may grow big. but my bet is on them being micro's.

 

 

I had no idea about micro's but i guess only time will tell either way still a cool find i think.

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so as i promised here is 2 photo's of these little guys thire not the best pic's but i keep trying intill i get a great one

 

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And here is a fts

 

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cheryl im not sure what they are but they only have spines on the side and none on the top that i can tell but i guess i find out as they grow

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well i keep looking online and im still not sure what i have but either way i think thire cool its hard to find pics of urchins online atleast of micro ones

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