Today I witnessed my long spined sea urchin eating the carcass of my diseased engineer goby. The death of the goby came as no surprise to me. I have been noticed it acting strange and not eating as usual. What did surprise me was finding the sea urchin eating the corpse. Even after pulling it out of its mouth it was still trying to eat some of the flesh that came loose in its spines. Only after offering it some dried seaweed did it stop going for the flesh. Has anyone ever heard of a thing like this before?
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Carnivourus sea urchin
- Thread starter steamman
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Sounds like a horrible halloween nightmare john... I don't wanna wake up with some spiny urchin eating my face....... its over for that urchin man... It has tasted .... THE FLESH.... it will go after you next.... once they taste the flesh they never go back.. 
--grin..
MENSGBOE- (My Experience Non Scientific Guess Based on Experience) ---- They are scavengers and omnivorous. Eating w/e comes easy or dead whether it be alge or goby. A chromis died and I saw a SandSifting Star Fish roll over it and NOM NOM NOM... WetWebMedia has a few cases of Nom Nom starfish and urchies..
--grin..
MENSGBOE- (My Experience Non Scientific Guess Based on Experience) ---- They are scavengers and omnivorous. Eating w/e comes easy or dead whether it be alge or goby. A chromis died and I saw a SandSifting Star Fish roll over it and NOM NOM NOM... WetWebMedia has a few cases of Nom Nom starfish and urchies..
I guess I better keep my face out of the tank. That would be a nightmare.Sounds like a horrible halloween nightmare john... I don't wanna wake up with some spiny urchin eating my face....... its over for that urchin man... It has tasted .... THE FLESH.... it will go after you next.... once they taste the flesh they never go back..
--grin..
MENSGBOE- (My Experience Non Scientific Guess Based on Experience) ---- They are scavengers and omnivorous. Eating w/e comes easy or dead whether it be alge or goby. A chromis died and I saw a SandSifting Star Fish roll over it and NOM NOM NOM... WetWebMedia has a few cases of Nom Nom starfish and urchies..
The urchin actually gave up eating the carcass remains after I put in a piece of dried seaweed. I guess it was really hungry.
Sounds to me John you have a bit of a Dahmer tank going on