Poo gone!!!!

[68551]

Sorry for the title, but after years of reef keeping & watching crabs, snails, clean up crew after clean up crew walk right over fish poo I finally saw my newly purchased yellow sea cucumber suck it up like a milkshake!!!
At first I was dissapointed when I got him because the LFS said he was a yellow cucumber....When I came home & looked online he wasen't as yellow as the online pics...&,upon reading the discriptions he was a filter feeder not a sand sucker....Well, I'm not sure which kind I have but he is a very dull yellow & he has climbed the glass & put out a totally cool branching apparatus that I assume catches particles in the water....I've had him almost a week & tonight I actually saw him crawl on the sand with the 10 or so apparatus things combing methotically through the sand & I actually saw him pick up a tang poo pile & take it to his mouth & eat it!!!! WoHoo!!! I am so tired of turkey basting it out that I was thrilled!!!! I even posted some time ago that even with 2 Vortecs in a 92 corner tank there didn't seem to be enough flow to pick it up & carry it to the overflow.....What a cool clean up crew with this cucumber!!!!

 

[LeslieH]

They are really cool! The filter-feeders are switch-hitters too. If there's not enough food in the water they will sweep the feeding tentacles over the bottom as you just witnessed.

 

[twiggyb]

Any pics of your new janitor

 

[ebruce01]

Would love to see some pics if you get a chance
Thank you

 

[68551]

I tried to make a movie last night but I have a bow front corner tank & pics always seem to come out distorted...

 

[68551]

If my photobucket account is sucessful here are the links <a href="http://s221.photobucket.com/albums/dd320/DBrown9383/?action=view&current

 

[68551]

Maybe now.... <a href="http://s221.photobucket.com/albums/dd320/DBrown9383/?action=view&current

 

[68551]

now???? <a href="http://s221.photobucket.com/albums/dd320/DBrown9383/?action=view&current

 

[68551]

ARG....PLEASE work....

 

[EllieSuz]

Nope, that link just takes us to the Photobucket homepage. Open your album, hover your mouse over the picture you want to share and you will get a drop down menu. Click on the last link which will copy the photo. Then you just paste it in your thread.

Never mind, you did it!

 

[ginnboy]

I got one just like yours that just appered must have been a hitchiker

 

[68551]

This is a pretty big cuc. How were you able to get it as a hitchiker?? Was the person at the LFS vision impared???

 

[mystery_reef]

this thread made me :lol:
nice cuk.
^^^
must have been blind.

 

[ginnboy]

lol had to be all I've added is some live rock in the last 6 months:dance:

 

[csmfish]

Did they say how big that pupy is supposed to get?

 

[ginnboy]

Mine is about 4in

 

[csmfish]

:eek1: :thumbsup:

 

[homeagain]

I want one "nice "

 

[LeslieH]

That's definitely a sand feeder. See how the branches at the ends of the feeding tentacles are flat like a floor mop? That's typical for sediment eaters. The filter feeders have elongate tiered branches like a tree branch.

 

[68551]

Good point!!!! I'm glad.... I would rather have a sand feeder than a filter feeder!!!!