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How to Care for Yellow Cucumber

written by Dave Burr
A colorful and bizarre addition to any reef aquarium, the jaundiced Cucumber can live for many years in the dwelling aquarium. The yellow Cucumber uses its oral tentacles to catch food that floats by. As each tentacle becomes full of food it draws its entire tentacle into its mouth. The jaundiced Cucumber should be target fertilize fed foods for percolate feeders including marine snow, phytoplankton, and zooplankton .
Behavior: It will move around the aquarium until it finds an sphere with a good stream where it can filter enough of food. Once it finds a desirable spot it may stay there for many months .
Feeding: The yellow Cucumber should be prey fed foods for trickle feeders including marine snow, phytoplankton, and zooplankton. If not by rights fed, the consistency of the Yellow Cucumber will lento begin to shrink. Try creating a storm in your aquarium using a turkey baster to blow jets of water into the dead spots of the aquarium to stir up the debris. then sit back and watch as it feeds on bits of debris that float by .
CAUTION! When harassed, and upon death, the Yellow Cucumber may release toxins that could kill fish in the aquarium. Do not house with flying gurnard, large angel shark, or other fish that are not dependable with invertebrates. If you observe a pisces pick at it, remove the fish or the jaundiced Cucumber immediately to a separate tank car.

Tip: The yellow Cucumber can be harmed by the intakes of any pumps or powerheads in the aquarium, so make surely to protect all intakes to prevent the yellow Cucumber from being sucked in .
Vivid Aquariums cannot accept any responsibility for any losses that may occur should the Yellow Cucumber poison the aquarium. Instances of Yellow Cucumber ‘s causing death in reef aquariums are very rare but it can happen. It ’ s a gamble – you choose to roll the dice, or not .
Care Level: Moderate
Reef Compatible: Yes
Diet: Filter Feeder
Range: Indian Ocean
Family: Cucumariidae
Water Conditions: 75-80° F ; seaborgium 1.024-1.026 ( 1.025 is ideal ) ; pH 8.1-8.4 Ca 420-440 ppm, Alk 8-9.5 dKH, Mg 1260-1350, Nitrates < 10ppm, Phosphates < .10ppm Water Chemistry:  It is significant that proper calcium ( 420-440 ppm ), alkalinity ( 8-9.5 dkh – run it 7-8 if you are carbon dosing ), and magnesium levels ( 1260-1350 ppm ) are maintained. Raising magnesium levels gradually up to 1400-1600 ppm can help to combat alga outbreaks, just keep CA and Alk in line as you raise the Mg. Nitrates should be below 10 ppm and phosphates should be below .10 ppm. We recommend doing a water change when Nitrate levels rise to 10 ppm. It is important to replace your phosphate media when phosphates rise to .10 ppm. Media Reactors make the most efficient use of your phosphate media by fluidizing it .
Dosing: Vivid Aquariums uses and recommends dosing pumps to automate the drug of additives and keep your levels more ceaseless. A dosing pump can aleviate the job of manually dosing your aquarium with Ca, Alk, & Mg 2,3, or 4 times per workweek and will benefit your aquarium by keeping your levels constant through frequent small additions of Ca, Alk, & Mg. Our tanks all progressed when we switched from 3 manual of arms dosings per week to 70 automatic dosings per week and we got a lot more ferment done.

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