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I bought a yellow sea cucumber about three weeks ago and now it divided itself into two. Now I have two sea cucumber. Is this normal?

Here is a picture of it seperating.

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Those are really cool. I see them at City Pets but didn't know they were cucumbers. I thought they were nudibranchs with a poor survival rate in captivity.

Great pic. How neat that it divided!

~ Sherri
 
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I have had one that in the last year has divided 5 times, and another one that has divided 3 times. All seem to be doing well. The one that stays on the glass has not moved more than a inch in a year.
 
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Hey Reefrus, if you're interested, I'll swap ya a yellow cuke for a black limpet one day. :)
 
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Does the yellow cube normally stay on the sand, cleaning the sand, or they normally in the rocks?

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I have some that stay on the glass, in Star Polyps, rocks and sand. The one that has split the most stays on the glass.

Ok Cakepro
 
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These guys are filter feeders - related more closely to the sea apples than cukes - so they aren't going to move all that much. You may have seen them extending their feeding tentacles at night. Keep them away from your powerheads and filter intakes, they aren't overly smart when it comes to staying out of these kinds of things. They are toxic, not unlike their cousins - bright colors anyone? - but since they are so small they aren't really much of a threat to the system in the event one bites the dust. Just keep them in a nice quiet setup without fish that are prone to picking, feed particulate type foods (DT's, cyclopes, Spectra-Vital, Golden Pearls, etc), and run carbon/polyfilter in the event one gets ground up by a spinning object. Peace.

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Very cool! Such a colorful addition to my tank in the future :) Always cool to get stuff that splits so you can trade later.
 
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Yeah It hasn't moved in weeks...I thought they would be in the sand like the other sea cucumbers ... but oh well it is a nice colorful addition to the tank.
 
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And obviously you have lots of good planktonic-sized food particles in your tank that sustain him. That's good!
 
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Ok I'm curious about something:

I've heard that with nudibranches, sea cucumbers, anemones, etc. you need to keep an eye on them, or screen off the powerhead so they don't get stuck to it/through it.

How exactly do you do that?
 
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Ok I'm curious about something:

I've heard that with nudibranches, sea cucumbers, anemones, etc. you need to keep an eye on them, or screen off the powerhead so they don't get stuck to it/through it.

How exactly do you do that?
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Just to go to any LFS and get the sponge filters for powerheads that cover the intakes. They are black and either cylindrical or square or rectangular.
 
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I have been curious about this also, you mean to say they squeeze through the grading that covers the intake of Maxi-jets?

Nathan
 
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When they wander too close to or onto the powerhead, they end up getting stuck due to the suction. They eventually get pulled in pieces through the grating of the powerhead screen and blasted throughout the tank in an ectoplasmic and sometimes toxic mess.

I've had nudibranchs and an anemone suck face with a Maxi-Jet...not a pretty sight.
 
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Humm, thank. I was wondering if people were leaving these off or something. I didn't think they would. More suction there than I thought, course that is what I get for thinking. ;)

Nathan
 
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I know the feeling Narkon, I got one of those neat purple nudibranchs once for my 20 gallon.
Tank had a wussy little powersweep on it.
Bout 2 days later, the nudibranch was gone and I could see some little purple pieces scattered in my tank. Stupid creatures....

I put 2 lettuce nudibranchs in my tank day before yesterday, can't find either one now.
 
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my yellow cucumber move at a pace of a centimeter a day..no jokes!!!
 
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You will very rarely see an invert "walk" away from an encounter with a power head or large pump or intake. Once an anemone's inside get pull to one side of their body, they are already stressed to the point of no return even if they don't get sucked all the way in.
 
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my purple linkia star and rose anenome decided to go joy riding.. They both got mangled purdie bad but survived. If your get stuck in a powerhead give it a couple of hours to recoup...You'd be surrised how resilence these guys are
 
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Our star and snails have been all around our maxi-jet intakes, that is the reason I was surprised. Thanks.

Nathan
 
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