Who has run a DSB?
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I like sea cukes, kept a few for several years
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Thespammailaccount
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I did a google search and could not find one for sale? Any risks involved in having one?
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I like to keep nassirius snails, a couple conches, a single sand sifting star and a horseshoe crab in my 230g with a deep sand bed
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How long have you had your DSB? How deep is your sand?
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The one in my 265 is 12 years old, mostly just nassirius snails and a diamond goby. Depth varies across the tank but on average id say 3-4in. I strongly believe it helps with the stability of the ecosystem in a tank. The 230 im just setting up and transferring everything from my 75 over.
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12 years that is a long time must be doing something right
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The big risk with cucumbers is cuke nuke - some species of cucumbers, when stressed or threatened, will eject their (toxic) guts, which has the potential to lead to widespread mortality in the tank.
That said, I feel like the threat of cuke nuke may have been exaggerated in the early 2000s and 2010s. I haven't heard of it being a major issue over the past few years; I don't know if that's because the species we keep don't employ that particular strategy, or if it's because it's not actually a thing that cucumbers do, or if people just aren't keeping cucumbers much any longer. But that's what I have heard about the risks of cucumbers.
Live Aquaria used to sell tiger tails, I bought one and found two about 5yrs later. They can grow fast. I also used large Babylon snails. They are long lived snails until you kill them with copper
, also too bad small tube worms went extinct in the hobby, I had a very active sand bed circa 1990’s
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Probably my favorite DSB critter is the spaghetti wormLive Aquaria used to sell tiger tails, I bought one and found two about 5yrs later. They can grow fast. I also used large Babylon snails. They are long lived snails until you kill them with copper
also too bad small tube worms went extinct in the hobby, I had a very active sand bed circa 1990’s
I have a remote DSB with reverse flow - been running for 5 years. I have also tiger tails in my DT (and in my refugium that is the upper part of my remote DSB.) Nema problema. The rumour about toxic cucumbers originates - IMO - from one species - the sea apple of the genera Pseudocolochirus. But they are filtraters and not of the type used in DSB.
Sincerely Lasse
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Only have dsb. My jawfishes keeps everything healthy. More than 15 years
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I have a pistol shrimp (with watchman goby) that are constantly turning over my sand bed (and my rock work). The shrimp works tirelessly and never stops making new caves and mountains out of my DSB. I also have a pearly jawfish, but he only makes a cave in one place. I used to have an ornate wrasse that would hide in the sand bed so I figured he would stir it up also. He decided to hide on my couch on day and that was the end of him. I would highly recommend a pistol shrimp if you can stand the constantly shifting sands/rocks and an occasional buried coral. If a frag falls to the bottom, he seems to take it into his cave or something because they disappear which really sucks.
