Cuc evisceration in the bag

[karimwassef]

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I got a couple of tiny cucumbers from an online vendor and they had eviscerated in the bag. I'm acclimating them but don't know if they're dead or alive or if I can risk it.

 

[karimwassef]

The bigger one is moving but it looks like an anal rupture with gills expelled. It's moving its tentacles but very sluggish.

 

[karimwassef]

I cut off the gut attachment to their bodies and put them in the tank. Both started moving and got under the rock work. They had recovered their shape somewhat by that time and were moving at a normal cucumber pace...

No idea if it was the right decision. We'll see.

 

[gnasher]

So they don't suck their guts back in after a while? I guess all you can do now is keep a close eye on them and remove them if they die. Good luck.

 

[karimwassef]

They expelled their gills through their anus. It was a rupture like expulsion. It wasn't going back in.

 

[Betta132]

The purpose of that little trick is to tangle/confuse/distract a predator so the cucumber can crawl away and regrow everything. They can't suck everything back in, and they couldn't realign everything if their guts all ended up inside them somehow.
There's a species of deep-sea cucumber, the Spanish Dancer, that responds to a threat by lighting up its skin and shedding said skin all over the threat. This distracts the predator, but also lights it up and makes it clear to any larger predators that there is something edible right there.

 

[rt67ghy]

There's a species of deep-sea cucumber, the Spanish Dancer, that responds to a threat by lighting up its skin and shedding said skin all over the threat. This distracts the predator, but also lights it up and makes it clear to any larger predators that there is something edible right there.

Amazing info.