Will my urchin eat a brittle star?

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I have a urchin which might be a t, toreumaticus, I believe that it's considered to be a carnivorous urchin, really slow but does his work really well as a clean up crew, but i believe that since he's so slow he will not be able to take care of my 210g tank with my 3 feet fat Tessalata in there so I am planning to add a brittle star, will this be an ok decision? I would also like some other clean up crews, if it weren't for my moon wrasse i would've definitely gotten atleast 10 huge nassarius snail's

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I have a urchin which might be a t, toreumaticus, I believe that it's considered to be a carnivorous urchin, really slow but does his work really well as a clean up crew, but i believe that since he's so slow he will not be able to take care of my 210g tank with my 3 feet fat Tessalata in there so I am planning to add a brittle star, will this be an ok decision? I would also like some other clean up crews, if it weren't for my moon wrasse i would've definitely gotten atleast 10 huge nassarius snail's

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They should be fine. My LFS keeps long spined urchins, tuxedo urchins, pincushion urchins etc with all sorts of starfish and they've never had any issues. I kept a tux and brittle star in my sump for years without problems
 

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I have a urchin which might be a t, toreumaticus, I believe that it's considered to be a carnivorous urchin, really slow but does his work really well as a clean up crew, but i believe that since he's so slow he will not be able to take care of my 210g tank with my 3 feet fat Tessalata in there so I am planning to add a brittle star, will this be an ok decision? I would also like some other clean up crews, if it weren't for my moon wrasse i would've definitely gotten atleast 10 huge nassarius snail's

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I believe that's a purple pincushin if so it's safe. Mine has never eaten a coral or inverts.
 
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I believe that's a purple pincushin if so it's safe. Mine has never eaten a coral or inverts.
Oh, no, its a t. Toreumaticus, it's considered to be a carnivore and native to the indian ocean since that's where I got it from
 
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