Sea urchins

Really appreciate you doing this, and happy to be here.

I love sea urchins.

So before we dive into the world of sea urchins, and I think you're gonna be good cop, I'm gonna be bad cop for the sea urchin world.

But before we dive into that world, tell us how you got into urchin work and how you're so passionate about urchins.

Yeah.

So a lot of people are primarily focusing on putting out corals or fragmenting corals, producing them, and, and putting them on the reef.

But there's really not a long-term success for that in my mind, because when those corals release their, their babies, when they wanna spawn and create new corals, those corals have a really hard time of settling.

So we focus on the reef grazers of mostly sea urchins, some crab species.

What are you talking about? What do you mean? If you

would have said you liked Urchin, I'd be like, you like Sea Urchin now.

What are you saying? I hate you all.

God, I hate you.

Sea Urchin.

Did Keith put you up to that? Oh, no.

Okay.

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I like the word lurch and urch, so urchin.

Urchin.

Urchin.

Yes.

Nice.