Awesome mystery urchin!! I.d. help

[joshbbert]

Got this awesome little hitchhiker think it's a banded sea urchin pics don't do it justice my camera sucks but he has lots of stripes on his spines

 

[dc]

[moved]

A pencil urchin maybe.

 

[rick12]

I think it's a pencil urchin.
Mine was a coral eater!

 

[Calappidae]

Rock Boring Urchin, I used to have one, they have super long tubefeet like this. He won't hurt nothing but maybe some coraline.

 

[Whiterabbitrage]

Yours is way cooler than mine. Mine never, ever, ever comes out in daylight. He hitchhiked in smaller than a grain of rice. I wasn't sure what he was. Now he's jawbreaker size. He doesn't hurt anything. I see him at night, always burrowing into the rocks.
Congrads on your awesome freebie find!

 

[joshbbert]

Yours is way cooler than mine. Mine never, ever, ever comes out in daylight. He hitchhiked in smaller than a grain of rice. I wasn't sure what he was. Now he's jawbreaker size. He doesn't hurt anything. I see him at night, always burrowing into the rocks.
Congrads on your awesome freebie find!

Thanks! I kinda turned the light on him when he was out doing his thing so he high tailed it back to his cave after I took the pics. with all those stripes im convinced he's a banded urchin

 

[Whiterabbitrage]

High tailed it back to the rocks huh? :lmao: Good to know yours hides too; mine's the same. Even red light seems to bother him. I don't know anything about urchins but yours sure looks like a banded to me too. Mine is solid black. Do rock boring come in a banded variety? Those were good photos btw.

 

[joshbbert]

High tailed it back to the rocks huh? :lmao: Good to know yours hides too; mine's the same. Even red light seems to bother him. I don't know anything about urchins but yours sure looks like a banded to me too. Mine is solid black. Do rock boring come in a banded variety? Those were good photos btw.

He won't come out with moon lights either lol the rock boring urchin all seem to have one white stripe at the base of its spines mine has multiple. Had to be real sneaky to get those photos lol

 

[Calappidae]

Rock boring urchins are a very confused species to identify.. you can research them by their exact species and still get images of urchins who seem fatter with shorter spines... or an entirely different urchin with no white bands around the base of their spines.

They have very long tubefeet. I had one, never saw him.. after I added him I got a glimpse a month later and that was it.

He's definitly something very close to this.

This would be a banded urchin..

And a pencil since I see a few people mentioning these.

 

[Betta132]

The long tubefeet are something I've never seen on anything. I'll have to second the ID of rock borer, if those are normal for them.

 

[joshbbert]

I have to agree he's closer to the rock borer just more stripes and his tubes Are veeery long. I think the mystery is solved thank you guys very much =)