Vincerama2
Active member
This is so weird.
So my lazy solution to keeping coralline off my glass is to buy a nice urchin. I bought it at Aquatic Gallery. It's sort of like a pincushion. It's not a tuxedo, not a long spine, not a pencil. It's a "generic urchin" with pink tipped spines.
The weird thing is, that unlike my "pencil-like" urchin in my sump, this urchin has sort of suction-y tentacles mixed in with the spines and stuff sticks to it. 2 days ago, an astraea snail was stuck to it, with it's foot flailing in the air. Today it's a small cerith snail, just stuck to it.
Hmmm... I didn't think it would be a problem, but that's 2 snails stuck to the outside of the urchin in a 3 day span!
Weird, eh? I'm thinking of (this is so stupid!) getting some colourful plastic beads and pre-sticking them to the urchin so that nothing else sticks to it!
What kind of weird behaviour is this. Does the urchin use the inter-spine tentacles for moving around? Or is it some weird camaoflauge technique?
V
So my lazy solution to keeping coralline off my glass is to buy a nice urchin. I bought it at Aquatic Gallery. It's sort of like a pincushion. It's not a tuxedo, not a long spine, not a pencil. It's a "generic urchin" with pink tipped spines.
The weird thing is, that unlike my "pencil-like" urchin in my sump, this urchin has sort of suction-y tentacles mixed in with the spines and stuff sticks to it. 2 days ago, an astraea snail was stuck to it, with it's foot flailing in the air. Today it's a small cerith snail, just stuck to it.
Hmmm... I didn't think it would be a problem, but that's 2 snails stuck to the outside of the urchin in a 3 day span!
Weird, eh? I'm thinking of (this is so stupid!) getting some colourful plastic beads and pre-sticking them to the urchin so that nothing else sticks to it!
What kind of weird behaviour is this. Does the urchin use the inter-spine tentacles for moving around? Or is it some weird camaoflauge technique?
V
