Nice shot. Looks like it might be what's left of a banded coral shrimp.

Wow, spot on.

Interesting. What are urchins, though, really? True animals (like an active creature).. or one of those species that just sort of crawls along, almost like an especially active plant?

I could probably go to Wikipedia and not look like an idiot here, but I wanted to comment on this picture.

It's a cool shot, all in all.

Hehehe, echinoderms (urchins and starfish) are funny creatures. Don't exactly have a brain, but somehow they seem to get along OK. Sort of like the blondes of the sea... . They're animals, but as we tend to only call vertebrates "animals" they usually aren't thought of as animals.

I also like to joke they are real life tentacle monsters... just very very tiny ones. When they put food in the tank they all come out

Stars are hilarious that way, waving their arms all over 'me first! me first!'. So are certain types of burrowing worms. I had a rather nice reef tank going for a while, with a six inch sandbed that started out being actual Gulf-of-Mexico seabed sand with whatever was living in it at the time. GOBS of itty-bitty 1cm brittle starts and redworms. Drop in a little bit of food and the sand just erupted. It was great. I barely needed to feed the tank because of the quantity of eggs and larvae and other zooplankton that the sandbed was churning out night after night, day after day.

Heehee Sea Urchin and his "pet" shrimp skin... "..An' I will hug him, and squeeze him, and pet him, and call him George..." ^_^

Nemo!

i hope you don't mind... but can i use this title?
i've got a... tradition of using interesting, emotion inducing titles for some of my works
do you mind if i use it?
i'd be very much grateful