yellow cucumber

[lakers10]

I was wonderin if I can place a yellow cucumber in my 14 bio to clean up the sand? I have heard it works but wanna make sure other people agree?

[Europhyllia]

what kind of yellow cucumber. There's one kind with fuzzy antennas that's a filter feeder.
Seems like you would have to feed an awful lot to sustain a cuke in a tank that small

[lakers10]

umm I'm lookin at the one without the antennas it has like tiny spikes on the back

[Mike]

Sand sifting cucumbers... we kept a smaller one in our 20g for a while, but eventually it cleaned out the sand bed and started starving and getting smaller. I moved it to the big tank and it has been doing fine ever since. So one would probably starve in your small tank. Plus you would have to worry about it nuking your tank if it gets too stressed or dies. They can release a toxin, which in an aquarium can be fatal to itself and all other occupants. We have had one or two in the big tank for years with no problem though.

A sand sifting starfish would quickly starve in that small of a tank.

How about a small sand sifting goby? It would keep your sand clean. What other fish do you have? Or how about some nassarius snails?

[lakers10]

I have sexy shrimp. Cleaner shrimp.yellow clown goby. Chalk basslet. Nassarius snails. Emarald crab. Red leg hermit. And a barbershop goby pistol shrimp pair. That's pretty much it

[Europhyllia]

that's a lot for a 14g!
Maybe you should wish for a bigger tank for x-mas ;)

[lakers10]

actually I have a 150 cycyling lol but I need to save to buy lights for it. And my bio is full but it looks empty ha.