Cucumbers don't eat SPS... do they?

[DiscusDan]

Hey I have this cucumber in my tank and it has crawled up on an Acro frag that was doing quite well before this "attack" but now it's completely dead, just a nice white skeleton, you can't see the frag in this pic but here's the cuke:

I'm wondering if the fact that it's made sitting on the frag its home is what killed the acro or if the cuke actually digested it or something...

And here's a couple other shots so there's a public record of my tank before I leave for Florida tomorrow leaving Ben (laxing22) in charge of my tank for a week ;-) (just kiddin man - thanks for lookin after the reef!

And Miracle Max & Valerie just laid a big bunch of eggs!

 

[Kent E]

Sounds like a question for Ron Shimek.

 

[laxing22]

Well, if all the SPS are white when you get back, the Cuke did it!

 

[fatrip]

well if your parameters are good and stable my first guess would be that the cucumber has some type of poisen that it excretes from its skin when attacked or also when shedding slime. If it excreted this while it was touching the SPS it could protentially kill it.

 

[Kent E]

Fatrip, that makes much more sense to me than it eating it.