Sea cucumbers, how bad are they?

[dawgface]

<span style="font-family: Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 13px"> </span></span><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: Verdana">Here's three episodes where they have posed serious problems for the inhabitants of the tank. </span></span>
<span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: Verdana">http://www.reeferscafe.com/invertebrates/5541-nuked-tiger-tail-sea-cucumber.html"><span style="color: #0000ff">http://www.reeferscafe.com/invertebrates/5541-nuked-tiger-tail-sea-cucumber.html</span></a></span></span>
<span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: Verdana">[IMG]http://saltwatervt.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=11269"><span style="color: #0000ff">http://saltwatervt.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=11269</span></a></span></span>
<span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: Verdana">[IMG]http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=782967"><span style="color: #0000ff">http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=782967</span></a></span></span>
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<span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: Verdana">Considering the article put forth by Rob Toonen, and the minimal accounts of horror stories vs. success stories the likelihood is slim at best to pose a problem. Having said that, the possibility is certainly there and each aqurist should know walking in their potential and weigh the risk vs. reward. I for one believe the reward outweighs the risk and will continue to house them in all of my larger volume systems.</span></span>

 

[jennm]

I always have to wonder, in the case of a deceased-but-considered-safe cucumber, if it gets the blame unfairly?

If it died first and went undetected, that could foul the water enough to kill other stuff (without toxins getting involved).

OR...

Was the dead cuke an equal casualty of whatever else "nuked" the tank... like hand lotion, bug spray....

I glanced at those threads and I didn't see anybody mention that the cukes had eviscerated. Surely they'd notice that? In my experience if they just "die" of natural causes, they don't 'nuke'. They're pretty hardy creatures, I haven't seen too many of them perish - but the few that did, did so uneventfully. No evisceration.

A toxic cuke, when provoked, will eviscerate. There's the nuke danger.

It's always easy to blame something that appears obvious but just because it was obvious doesn't mean that's the way it happened.

Jenn

 

[grouper therapy]

JennM;721671 wrote: I always have to wonder, in the case of a deceased-but-considered-safe cucumber, if it gets the blame unfairly?

If it died first and went undetected, that could foul the water enough to kill other stuff (without toxins getting involved).

OR...

Was the dead cuke an equal casualty of whatever else "nuked" the tank... like hand lotion, bug spray....

I glanced at those threads and I didn't see anybody mention that the cukes had eviscerated. Surely they'd notice that? In my experience if they just "die" of natural causes, they don't 'nuke'. They're pretty hardy creatures, I haven't seen too many of them perish - but the few that did, did so uneventfully. No evisceration.

A toxic cuke, when provoked, will eviscerate. There's the nuke danger.

It's always easy to blame something that appears obvious but just because it was obvious doesn't mean that's the way it happened.



Jenn

Agreed :up::up::up:
I think that happens many times in this hobby. Too many assumptions are made. That is usually how nonfactual "rules" and myths come about.