My Blue Zoo order came in....!

[ChrisPrusha]

Cuke is prolly the best bet, with ET not far behind.

[icebear]

i looked around wetwebmedia http://www.wetwebmedia.com/seacukes.htm i have not found an exact match, but i have seen a few with close similarities... i was not aware that cukes had sticky tube feet... or none that i noticed before... or that they'd prefer the glass to burrowing in the sand.

does anyone think its risky to keep it if it were to die in my tank? i think Todd will not notice something that really is this small and slow.

well i guess i'll name it Puke for now and see if it disappears or grows...or tries to phone home!

[jenglish]

I have had a cuke expel his innards and nothing else died and I only had a suck-clone skimmer. He came out very quickly. Mine had to be target fed and IDK why he died.

[icebear]

this order has become very interesting!

trying to find out what type of cuke this thing is and what it would need to survive is looking like it will be challenging...! its SOL if it needs target feeding.

[jenglish]

well, target feeding is probably an exageration. THe flow was setup to so that if I put flake in on one corner the flakes would sweep across the sandbed and he would catch some. They are neat to watch eat

[Wiskey]

Originally Posted by icebear

i looked around wetwebmedia http://www.wetwebmedia.com/seacukes.htm i have not found an exact match, but i have seen a few with close similarities... i was not aware that cukes had sticky tube feet... or none that i noticed before... or that they'd prefer the glass to burrowing in the sand.

does anyone think its risky to keep it if it were to die in my tank? i think Todd will not notice something that really is this small and slow.

well i guess i'll name it Puke for now and see if it disappears or grows...or tries to phone home!

My normal mantra is "When in doubt, keep it out".

If I'm unsure about something small I will often put it in my Q tank and see what it grows into before I risk having it breed in my 180.

Normally paracitic organisms are found on their food,.. so when a bug comes off coral I get wary.

Whiskey

[Doug1]

Looks like you made a good score Heather, hope the little shrimp does well for you

[icebear]

Originally Posted by Doug1

Looks like you made a good score Heather, hope the little shrimp does well for you

thanks! i hope it ends up surviving the cycle!




as for the cuke....this looks like as close as i will find:
http://www.wetwebmedia.com/cukeidf3.htm

mine has clear gill things, and he's on the glass, not in a rock, but it "licks" its gills like the one described... maybe its looking for a rock to plunk its backside into and is simply confuzzled... wetweb says that for critters this small there's not too much to worry about and this appears to be a harmless type so far.... the pistol came off the same brain and its harmless to brains.... so maybe the same can be said for this weird cuke...

[aquawolf]

Very nice looking frags. Congrats, once again.

[icebear]

that alien creature seems to have parked its butt right on the glass. he's still there squinched into a ball.... right about where the two powerheads are aimed at the front glass.

odd little critter.


i did want to double check a few things more. my toadstool sent out polyps the first two days, but not the last two. its under a powerhead intake (well more than a couple inches away)... it has been a long time since i have had one, how long till i should worry about it? i assume its getting ready to shed... should i aim a PH at it directly?

also, since i have never owned a brain coral- my favia is on the sand and overnight the base picks up a small dune against the edge of some of its tissue... i blow it clear every morning, will this become a problem? i have a feeling it will.... should i place it on my rocks... i thought i read it was supposed to be on sand, unless i am confusing it with something else. hmmm....

[icebear]

Just bumping for these two questions

Originally Posted by icebear

i did want to double check a few things more. my toadstool sent out polyps the first two days, but not the last two. its under a powerhead intake (well more than a couple inches away)... it has been a long time since i have had one, how long till i should worry about it? i assume its getting ready to shed... should i aim a PH at it directly?

also, since i have never owned a brain coral- my favia is on the sand and overnight the base picks up a small dune against the edge of some of its tissue... i blow it clear every morning, will this become a problem? i have a feeling it will.... should i place it on my rocks... i thought i read it was supposed to be on sand, unless i am confusing it with something else. hmmm....

[aquawolf]

As long as the leather isn't turning mushy and looking like it is "melting" away it should be fine. I have had mine stay closed up for a week before without any problems. I would make sure you had some decent flow around it, but not necessarily point the power head directly at it. Hopefully it is just going through a molt as you stated.

I have always been told to keep brain corals on the sand as well, something about the rocks tearing up their base. I am not 100% sure about that though so hopefully someone else will chime in on that question.

[icebear]

i think i'm going to siphon out most of the rest of the sand in the next few water changes....


oh, and Todd ate the urchin. that really stinks cause it was making great headway , even eating red turf algae. it must have tumbled off the rock pile and caught his attention. maybe i can find a bigger one in the spring.

[aquawolf]

I have seen people keep brains on the glass in bare bottom, just not on the sharp rocks.

Sorry about the urchin. Todd must have thought he needed a bristle brush cleaning from the inside.

[icebear]

i'm thinking about sumping Todd when the time comes

he can be very difficult to build a tank around at times. i love him dearly, but i'd like to have corals not get buried and livestock not eaten.