Sea Cucumbers - yay or nay?

[schnebbles]

I was looking at the yellow ones on liveaquaria.

 

[CarrieB]

Love mine. Keeps the sand perfect.

Not good if you like to leave frags on the sand because they tend to knock them around.


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[tkeracer619]

Depends on the tank.

 

[themagicman]

Check this out.

http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2003/1/inverts

HTH.

 

[Ron Reefman]

I have a yellow sand sifting cucumber from the Florida Keys in all 3 of my tanks with sand bottoms. However, all 3 tanks are mature and I don't clean the sand so there is adequate food for them. They do need open sandy room to feed and they will disturb corals left in the sand.

 

[AlSimmons]

I dropped this one in my tank once before. That was the last time I ever saw it. (even when I broke it down)

 

[johnike]

Love mine, great sand cleaners.

 

[oneofmany]

Not necessarily IMO. What I can do with a siphon in 5 minutes doesn't even compare to that pet in a month. A "pet" might be the operative word here though.

 

[schnebbles]

thanks, maybe I'll pass on it for now.

 

[anthonys51]

i love mine, all it does all day long is clean my sand. plus it also gets into places i cant get into. but i have 125 lbs of rock in my 57 now if you have minimum rockwork you can always clean the sand yourself, but why would i want to. no member of a cuc is the end of be all when it comes to maintenance, they wherent meant to do all the work, but i try to get as diverse cuc as possible to help maintain my tank

 

[schnebbles]

I just thought they looked kinda cool. My sand isn't fine, more like gravel. Tropic eden flakes

 

[Ron Reefman]

thanks, maybe I'll pass on it for now.

Given your type of sand, probably a good idea.

 

[SpeedKilz]

They would do the job - a sand sifting goby of some sort might be a little more interesting to look at though.

 

[anthonys51]

Goby need finer sand


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[schnebbles]

So is there any goby who would do ok in the reef flakes substrate?


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[anthonys51]

Don't think so can I ask why you used a courser sand. Detritus tends to settle more in courser sand then finer sand. The finer sand if harder for the crap to settle down deep while the course ones it finds the holes


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[AlSimmons]

Detritus doesn't necessarily have a mind set IME, it will settle one way or the other. There's absolutely no doubt in my mind that a happy healthy reef tank can be accomplished with CC, in the right hands of course.

 

[schnebbles]

I had just read the tropic eden was good so I got it.


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[anthonys51]

Smaller grains sand detritus will tend to settle on top making it easier to see and clean larger size sand detritus tends to fall in between making it harder to see and clean. But yes both can get dirty if not probably cleaned but finer imo is easier plus more animals tend to clean, sift fiber sand


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[schnebbles]

I've been cleaning it with the gravel cleaner.