tuxedo urchins anyone? (1 Viewer)

[darrin]

someone told me tuxedos were good for eating nucance macro algae..

anyone know about this and if it is a good thing, anyone seen a tuxedo at any lfs's?

 

[Guest]

they will knock over your liverock and stuff.

 

[djreef]

Tuxedos (Mesplias I believe?) are more of a coraline eater, which is not a bad thing per se'. They crap out sand, which is the by product of rasping the coraline off the liverock, so at least you don't have to worry about adding any as the system ages. If you aren't growing turfs or macros in the system, and you don't have significant coraline growth I'd pass on these guys - they don't feed very well on nuisance algaes.

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[cparka23]

B&B usually has them in case you want one. I used to have one together with a pencil urchin. The tuxedo passed on after almost a year so now it's just the pencil urchin, which has been in the tank forever. The tuxedo was a LOT better at cleaning algae off my rocks, though. You could always figure out where it had been by following the clean lines it made on the rocks.

boosted98gsx is right tho. both those urchins are bulldozers.