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Needs a large tank of at least 3-4 feet and sufficient organic load in the sand in order to sustain it. When under stress it can release holototoxin that can crash your tank. Under the right conditions they are great sand clean up crew


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Sand is a must. The only risk is it may climb to your wave maker and got blended. The release of toxic happens when they sense danger, if died naturally, won't have this issue. Can Google to read more. 

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Tank : 4 X 2 X 2 with low iron front panel and external overflow

Skimmer : BK SM200 with waste collector

Return Pumps : Red Dragon 6m3 and Ehiem 1262

FR : 2 X Deltec 509 & powered by AB2000

Nitrate Filter : Deltec NF 509 and tee off from AB2000

Calcium R'tor : Deltec PF 501 with RM secondary chamber

Kalkwasser R'tor : Deltec KM500

Chiller : Pansonic 1 HP Compressor with 20m titanium Coil

Wave Makers : 4 X Tunze 6055 with 7096 & Vortec MP40w

Controller : GHL Profilux

Lighting : ATI Powermodule 10 or 8 tubes

Water Top-up : Water Top-Up tank powered by Tunze Osmolator

External Monitor : American Pinpoint pH and Temp. Monitor for main tank and GHL Profilux Controller to measure temp, pH, Redox

Ozonizer : Sander C50

UV : Corallife 6x

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The common ones folks keep are full black, black/pink & tiger tail variants. Of course there are others available just not as common/popular.

Once in the tank, the black & black/pink ones 'appear' more often. Tiger tail ones tend to hide in the rocks & come out at night.

IMO, they don't really do much cleaning up as they move quite slowly. Nevertheless, they are a nice addition just for the variety. I have 4 sea cucumbers in my 5ft tank. They have been handled quite roughly on my side & wrapped around the wavemaker to eat algae - never had an issue with it spilling its guts. 

About the defense mechanism of spilling its guts - it does happen as I've seen it in coral farm's tanks. Possibly stressed from shipment.

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