Sea Cucumber or something else?

[MySonWantedAHamster]

Found this guy on the top of some live rock (gulf) I'm prepping for a new tank. My first guess was a sea cucumber, but not 100%

 

[SlugSnorter]

Bump

I think cuke


careful or it will nuke


maybe give to LFS for store credit

 

[MySonWantedAHamster]

Thanks, Are cucumbers too risky to be kept?

 

[CanuckReefer]

Found this guy on the top of some live rock (gulf) I'm prepping for a new tank. My first guess was a sea cucumber, but not 100%

Yup...thinking Amphigynmas bahamensis

https://nmnh.typepad.com/no_bones/2...a-echinoderms-in-the-northern-gulf-of-me.html

Not really familiar with your specimen here , some are more prone to release toxins than others. I've had a Tiger Tail sea cucumber for over 15 years no issues, and not thought of generally as a tank nuke. I would be cautious at least till a 100% positive ID could be made. Cool critter though!

 

[taricha]

I vote keep. I like cucumbers.

 

[CanuckReefer]

I vote keep. I like cucumbers.

I like em a lot too , but I would definitely try to nail down the species 100% though, and research it. Filter feeder or bottom feeder first off, powerheads can be a serious enemy and end up disaster if it's a filter feeding climber.

 

[BostonReefer300]

I absolutely agree on getting a positive ID before you decide to do anything with it. I heard from a pretty knowledgeable guy at my LFS that the more colorful a "cucumber" (e.g. Sea Apple), the more toxin. Not sure if that's true, but I guess it would make sense from an evolutionary standpoint.

 

[sfin52]

Yup...thinking Amphigynmas bahamensis

https://nmnh.typepad.com/no_bones/2...a-echinoderms-in-the-northern-gulf-of-me.html

Not really familiar with your specimen here , some are more prone to release toxins than others. I've had a Tiger Tail sea cucumber for over 15 years no issues, and not thought of generally as a tank nuke. I would be cautious at least till a 100% positive ID could be made. Cool critter though!

Thats my thought as well. Just not many pics of it that I could find

 

[MySonWantedAHamster]

Yup...thinking Amphigynmas bahamensis

https://nmnh.typepad.com/no_bones/2...a-echinoderms-in-the-northern-gulf-of-me.html

Not really familiar with your specimen here , some are more prone to release toxins than others. I've had a Tiger Tail sea cucumber for over 15 years no issues, and not thought of generally as a tank nuke. I would be cautious at least till a 100% positive ID could be made. Cool critter though!

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. The link you posted looks really close. Might not be able to tell by my pictures, but it looks a lot like a brown hairy caterpillar, currently around 1.5". I couldn't find many images that looked similar.

 

[Pkunk35]

Personally I would not keep that with iD as said.
somehow that thing looks like it either eats coral, spits venom or comes out of the tank at night…

as you can see my motivations aren’t really logical, but still, are we even sure it’s a cucumber and what will it eat? And then it dies and then it doesn’t really have to be toxic to start messing with stuff…
I agree tho tiger tails are awesome!

 

[BostonReefer300]

Personally I would not keep that with iD as said.
somehow that thing looks like it either eats coral, spits venom or comes out of the tank at night…

as you can see my motivations aren’t really logical, but still, are we even sure it’s a cucumber and what will it eat? And then it dies and then it doesn’t really have to be toxic to start messing with stuff…
I agree tho tiger tails are awesome!

That's why I'll never get a big eel. Scares the bejesus out of me that it would get out of the tank and crawl into my bed

 

[FurrierTransform]

That's why I'll never get a big eel. Scares the bejesus out of me that it would get out of the tank and crawl into my bed

Haha! I think an octopus would be more likely to do that.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Looks like either pineapple sea cucumber or bahama maidenbusg cucumber
Both can grow large and are sensitive to high nitrates

 

[MySonWantedAHamster]

Personally I would not keep that with iD as said.
somehow that thing looks like it either eats coral, spits venom or comes out of the tank at night…

All excellent points haha!

So far I've found a mantis shrimp, mithrax crabs, majano, some type of bristle worm that swims erratically through the water column, and now a Coral Eating Venom Spitter that can also live on land.

 

[BostonReefer300]

I'd wear a hazmat suit when working in your tank

 

[sfin52]

All excellent points haha!

So far I've found a mantis shrimp, mithrax crabs, majano, some type of bristle worm that swims erratically through the water column, and now a Coral Eating Venom Spitter that can also live on land.

Could also be a rfa.