Any urchins that do not eat corraline algae?

blueheaven · December 21, 2003

Re ther any sea urchins which do not eat corraline algae? or all urchins will eat corraline algae? pls help :thanks:

Tanzy · December 21, 2003

Urchins eating coralline algae is not a problem. It will be slower than the rate of growth.

blueheaven · December 21, 2003

mine is not growing fast enough

i have started dosing kalkwasser for top up 3 days ago. hope it helps :lol:

DrJekyl_MrHyde · December 21, 2003

i have try two to three type of sea urchins they mostly feed on corraline algae on LR and sometimes it also will topper your Lr ........

nivlac · December 21, 2003

It's ok for them to eat the coraline algae, they don't eat that much.

Problem is they tend to rearrange the rockwork and coral placement quite a fair bit. Learnt the hard way after one of my torch corals was toppled and dropped onto one of my prized pratas......prata kena stung quite badly and never recovered and slowly wasted away over 6 months

My urchin got banished to the refugium thereafter :ph34r: