Picture of new Cucumber
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They are supposedly some what low matinence and feed on algae, detritus and also are filter feeders and should be fed phytoplankton. This is my first cucumber, I paid $30.00 Cnd for hiim. I love the color of it and it make a great addition to the tank. If any one has experiance with this guy I would appritiate any helpfull tips.
My helpful tip is take it back before it wipes out your tank. It is absolutely doomed to death by starvation as the fact it's brightly coloured and has those long branching 'things' means 1. it's toxic and 2. it's a filter feeder not a detritivore.
Unless you're prepared to grow fresh phyto or buy it, or cultivate rotifers or other nano plankton it's doomed to die in your tank, and that bright colour would have me worried.
I strongly doubt you will be able to feed it with phyto/nano plankton sub foods unless you can get the chilled stuff, and then whisk it down to stop clumping.
Unless you're prepared to grow fresh phyto or buy it, or cultivate rotifers or other nano plankton it's doomed to die in your tank, and that bright colour would have me worried.
I strongly doubt you will be able to feed it with phyto/nano plankton sub foods unless you can get the chilled stuff, and then whisk it down to stop clumping.
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Aside from two LFS stating this here is one link with a reference to this cucumber
http://www.aquacon.com/cucumbers.html
My LFS is usually pretty good and if I run into a problem and they would help out (ie. take it back). It's hard to find any info on this particular one and if you have any refferences to this cucumber I would appretiate it.
Cucumber is AOK no signs of any stress and it seems to be eating. It is cool to watch you can actually see it take one of it's branches and shove it into it's mounth and then pull it out and stick another one in. It does this when I put in the filter food especially. I also noticed it eat a peice of plant that I puchased to throw into my tank for food for everything in there, not sure how to spell it (colarpa) I know that is not even close to the correct name but something like that.
It's doing good I am really glad I purchased it; adds a nice touch to the tank!
I feed it about 2x week and once a day I stur up the substrate by blasting water with a turkey baster at it. This releases particles into the water colum for it to filter feed on.
He moves around the tank to find a new resting spot every once in a blue moon. I have a picture in my other post that you can kinda see him on the glass. see the link below.
http://www.myfishtank.net/forum/showthread.php?t=31186