Stucked Sea Cuke

[jasyu]

Hey guys, Just got a tiger sea cucumber from Marine Life yesterday, woke up this morning and found that it went into a hole inside my life rock. It seems to be stuck inside the hole as the hole is quite small and its only 1 way....haha anybody have this kind of experience.... is a sea cuke clever enough to move backwards.... haizz....... hope it can find a way out...........

[ah_d3x]

no worrys dude... they wont get stuck one... they r boneless animals...

[FlameDav]

Hi there. I just gotten mine from ML too after some advise from fellow sg reefers. Eg. ah_d3x and Dazza.

But mine "disappeared" after the first night.

Donno where it's hidding man.

I suppose it's still alive cos nothing in my tank died yet.

Hahaha

[jasyu]

which one did u get, the medusa or the tiger cuke

[FlameDav]

I got the same as yours, Tiger cuke.

*Still searching high and low for it* ...

[bloodlamb]

mine also when into the rocks and hide. After a few days it will stick out its head to eat.

[35Cents]

Tiger cuke do get "lost" from time to time... if you got lots of LR for it to hide then you are in for a hard search. They mostly attach themselves onto the base of a LR and does an erection of its body to cover more ground for gazing. The "attached" part is the butt and will spit out "cleaned" sand every now and then. So look out for small amount of sand released or their moulded "shit sand" to get an idea of where they are. Think of them as the contortionists of the sea... its hard for them to get stuck.

On another note... if you do not see your cuke active for a few days and had been hidding a lot... it may be reproducing itself by splitting in half. On average it will take a week for the head to grow a butt and the butt to grow a head. Do take note of how the spilt parts are... they should be a clean cut (like an amputee's healed limp) and no intestines or other weird stuffs danging out. If its the latter case... take it out in a hospital tank added with small amount of lugol to help healing and also spare the LS in your main tank from the toxin. Don't freak out in seeing more cukes than you buy... haha I did when mine did.

[FlameDav]

Ah.. great piece of info.

Thanks 35cents.

Arr man, perhaps I should have gotten the black sea cuke then.

To clean the open sand bed without LRs in front.

[FlameDav]

Ooo ... my tight sea cuke is still alive!

Saw it reporting for work last night when I peeped at my tank using

a little blue led light.

Woot !

I was quite skinny though, might have stretched all the way from deep in the rocks to come out to feed.