Dead cucumber?

[allendehl]

Hello guys,

I brought home a tiger tail sea cucumber 9 days ago. I don't think he ever made it to the sand. As soon as it went into the DT it climbed up to a rock instead. I went to a weekend trip last Friday to come home today and see a substantial amount of disgusting goo stock in one of my corals. The cucumber is the only thing i have in the tank it could come from.
I pulled it off the tank and have it in a separate container until I figure out what's the deal with it.
Pic attached. One end of it looks like a real cucumber going bad, kind of thin and wrinkled.
Is it dead?

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[ReefkeeperZ]

if you had to pull it off it's not dead

 

[ReefkeeperZ]

it might be dying but leaving it alone is the best chance it has.

 

[allendehl]

it might be dying but leaving it alone is the best chance it has.

Meaning putting it back into the DT? Any consequence of it dying there?

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[Uncle99]

Be careful, some can emit toxins upon death....

 

[Redllama1]

Meaning putting it back into the DT? Any consequence of it dying there?

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Quarantine tank. Don't put it in your display.


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[heathlindner25]

It looks fine to me and I think you're overreacting.

 

[allendehl]

It looks fine to me and I think you're overreacting.

It is expelling a good amount of nasty stuff.

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[mcgyvr]

Cucumbers will twist and rip/tear themselves apart as they grow to duplicate themselves..
It looks fine to me and may have just been doing that..

 

[ReefNomad]

Cucumbers will twist and rip/tear themselves apart as they grow to duplicate themselves..
It looks fine to me and may have just been doing that..

Absolutely agree. Cucumbers can essentially twist off a segment to generate an entirely new cucumber. It's actually the most common way certain cucumbers respond to a new, resource-rich environment. You'll see Colochirus species dividing themselves in retail tanks often. Division is the fastest way of doubling their genetic presence and thus their odds of long term genetic survival. They'll usually climb a rock or a wall so that they're safe from predation and from sand irritating their healing wounds.
Also, when you get big cucumbers you get big sloughs of mucous matter from their exterior. It looks terrible, and there are certain corals that are aggravated by that slime (pretty much anything irritated by vermetid snails will be irritated by cucumber slime)... but, it's easy enough to siphon out.

 

[allendehl]

Oh well...great to know!! The guy is back in the DT. Dropped it back in before leaving for work. It looks kind of flat and static tho. Hopefully a night in a bucket of water didn't kill him.

 

[allendehl]

Cucumbers will twist and rip/tear themselves apart as they grow to duplicate themselves..
It looks fine to me and may have just been doing that..

Mc, this guy isn't moving at all. I had to rescue him from the LTA twice. It a looking thinner.
Does it look alive to you???

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