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MikeDeL
Sun, 13th Mar 2005, 11:16 PM
So these guys are supposed to dig around and live in the sand right? The cucumbers I have in my tank just hide behind my skimmer overflow box. Unless they come out LATE at night I dont see them doing much of anything.
Tim Marvin
Mon, 14th Mar 2005, 12:33 AM
Mine come out mostly at night.
StephenA
Mon, 14th Mar 2005, 10:00 AM
Do they really dig around in the sand and do good things to it or eat the good things in the sand?
::pete::
Mon, 14th Mar 2005, 11:02 AM
Like Joshua said ... my pink and black one is like a filter it goes in one end and out the other. What type of cucumber is it that you have? I used to have the greenish one with feathery tentacles that would pearch on the rock and just stay put grabbing food from the water column.
don-n-sa
Mon, 14th Mar 2005, 11:39 AM
Call me crazy but I think that the pink one that I got from Blake ate a ricordia! It took a few days but after the cuke moved away the ric was gone.
::pete::
Mon, 14th Mar 2005, 01:49 PM
You is Crazy ;) I have the black and pink one as I mentioned and 3 different ricordia that it has never bothered. Nothing that happens in the tank suprises me ... :huh
don-n-sa
Mon, 14th Mar 2005, 03:24 PM
The one I had was pink and yellow...not black, I have seen them at aquatic warehouse
blueboy
Mon, 14th Mar 2005, 06:24 PM
wherehouse?...there house...sorry, couldn't resist
don-n-sa
Mon, 14th Mar 2005, 06:39 PM
wherehouse?...there house...sorry, couldn't resist

What? :huh
Ram_Puppy
Mon, 14th Mar 2005, 09:23 PM
Mine come out mostly at night.


"The come at night mostly.... mostly..."

Sorry.. couldn't resist. A gold star to the first person who calls the movie.
Richard
Mon, 14th Mar 2005, 09:51 PM
It's "they mostly come at night, mostly"

I may be synthetic, but I'm not stupid
Ram_Puppy
Tue, 15th Mar 2005, 03:05 AM
lol... ok.. you got me. Gold Star! :)

(Aliens)
blueboy
Wed, 16th Mar 2005, 11:09 AM
watch "young frankenstein", you'll get it
akm
Wed, 16th Mar 2005, 01:37 PM
The pink cucumbers dont have the toxic tube things but they can spit out their organs which are posiones too.
MikeP
Thu, 17th Mar 2005, 04:43 PM
Not sure what the species is but I've had a black knobby cuke for 3 years now. Does and awesome job keeping the sand clean. The planktivore types (thinking like the yellow mini cukes) generally have abbreviated lifespans.
GaryP
Thu, 17th Mar 2005, 07:02 PM
Not sure what the species is but I've had a black knobby cuke for 3 years now. Does and awesome job keeping the sand clean. The planktivore types (thinking like the yellow mini cukes) generally have abbreviated lifespans.

Abbreviated because most people don't feed them phyto or rotifers.