Urchin safe Marine predator

[fish042099]

What are some predators that wouldn't eat my long spine urchin? Also one that doesn't have a big mouth.

 

[Recty]

Six line wrasse.

 

[LisaD]

any of the scorps or lionfish

 

[sacremon]

Some of the lionfish have rather large mouths. P. radiata do not.

 

[LisaD]

I think you need to avoid many of the larger wrasses, puffers, triggers. How big is your tank? If the urchin takes up a lot of space in the tank, other predators may bump into it.

 

[fish042099]

It's 100 gallons, would a creole wrasse work?

 

[LisaD]

Don't longspine urchins get up to 10" around? I'd stick with smaller fish to avoid a larger one blundering into the spines.

Also, this is what webwebmedia has to say about creole wrasses:

Genus Clepticus: Here is another species we'll mention, the Creole Wrasse, Clepticus parrae (Bloch & Schneider 1801) (3), simply because it (mis)enters the trade from time to time. This reef roamer is not often identified as a wrasse at all, as it cruises above the reefs of the tropical western Atlantic. The Creole Wrasse almost always dies in route from being shipped from the wild. To one foot in length. This one in Cancun, Mexico.

Seems too fragile, large and active to be a good choice for your tank.

How about a mystery wrasse along with dwarf angelfish? What's in your tank now, along with the urchin?

 

[fish042099]

5 damsels are in my tank, what predators would work?