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wow! pretty!!

Thanks, he's a macroalgae muncher!

That is absolutely gorgeous, what kind of urchin is he?

wow...what kind of urchin is that?

nice

sooo many colors......! It only gets better if you full screen, great picture !

B-A-Utifull. does it ever collect things from around your tank like a pin cushion does.

Winner!!! I guess we can all delete our pictures of our snails and hermit crabs

pretttty.

gorgeous urchin!

Definitely one of the shots, if not THE shot, that made me almost not enter this contest myself. I could stare at the enlargement for hours. How can something be so stunning AND eat macros? Does it have a downside--like scraping coralline or toppling corals, etc.? And to echo travisurfer, what kind of urchin is it?

That's really neat, and different!!

Now, you have to tell us exactly what it is, and where you got it, and we'll vote for you! :-) I know I want one!

Just kidding, you'll win anyway! Great shot!!!

As far as IDing it, all i know its a short spine urchin, I can't get more technical than that cuz i simply don't know =(

Only downside is that it sheds its spines and knocks over frags now and then. other than that i love him, he's all over the tank!

^^^Hmmm. Looks quite possible, see this pic: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=6760531

If so, apparantly it's toxic:

http://underwaterphotos.com/article5.htm

Still gorgeous, though!

thanks for the links and photos, i did some googling of fire urchin and its definitely not it. i'm able to hold it in my hands and the spines are much shorter than the fire urchin

wiggity winner !

What the! Hey, I love my sea urchin, and that is one colorful and unique urchin I never seen before. Good find ezcompany!

I have mine in the refugium, and it helps keep the cheato mowed down a bit.