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12/13/2009, 06:08 PM
Sorry for the title, but after years of reef keeping & watching crabs, snails, clean up crew after clean up crew walk right over fish poo I finally saw my newly purchased yellow sea cucumber suck it up like a milkshake!!!
At first I was dissapointed when I got him because the LFS said he was a yellow cucumber....When I came home & looked online he wasen't as yellow as the online pics...&,upon reading the discriptions he was a filter feeder not a sand sucker....Well, I'm not sure which kind I have but he is a very dull yellow & he has climbed the glass & put out a totally cool branching apparatus that I assume catches particles in the water....I've had him almost a week & tonight I actually saw him crawl on the sand with the 10 or so apparatus things combing methotically through the sand & I actually saw him pick up a tang poo pile & take it to his mouth & eat it!!!! WoHoo!!! I am so tired of turkey basting it out that I was thrilled!!!! I even posted some time ago that even with 2 Vortecs in a 92 corner tank there didn't seem to be enough flow to pick it up & carry it to the overflow.....What a cool clean up crew with this cucumber!!!!
At first I was dissapointed when I got him because the LFS said he was a yellow cucumber....When I came home & looked online he wasen't as yellow as the online pics...&,upon reading the discriptions he was a filter feeder not a sand sucker....Well, I'm not sure which kind I have but he is a very dull yellow & he has climbed the glass & put out a totally cool branching apparatus that I assume catches particles in the water....I've had him almost a week & tonight I actually saw him crawl on the sand with the 10 or so apparatus things combing methotically through the sand & I actually saw him pick up a tang poo pile & take it to his mouth & eat it!!!! WoHoo!!! I am so tired of turkey basting it out that I was thrilled!!!! I even posted some time ago that even with 2 Vortecs in a 92 corner tank there didn't seem to be enough flow to pick it up & carry it to the overflow.....What a cool clean up crew with this cucumber!!!!