Tiger Tail cukes?

SnowHeart · Jun 19, 2007

I see a lot of cleaner packages that include these sea cukes, but my impression was that home aquarists (other than experts) should generally avoid cukes because of their ability to crash a system when they die. Are tiger tail cucumbers less sensitive/deadly, or are these cleaner packages something that a novice marine aquarist should avoid?

Thanks,
~Snowy :dog:

Reefscape · Jun 19, 2007

Tigers are less deadly, however, there is still the possibility that it can cause some damage in the tank which is caused by it expelling its guts which "can" be toxic to other inhabitants...

Personaly i dont agree with the cleaner packages as i believe they are way over kill, and the cleanup crew should be tailored and expanded depending on the ammount of alage and waste food that is available..inevitably, you put all the package into a system, some "will" die..

Just an opinion

Niko

SnowHeart · Jun 19, 2007

atnixon said:
Personaly i dont agree with the cleaner packages as i believe they are way over kill, and the cleanup crew should be tailored...

Thanks Niko; great information, as always. Honestly, this was my instinct, but being new to SW I wanted to ask others.

Germanman · Jun 21, 2007

they almost never cause crashes, i have yet to hear of one in a well maintained aquarium....but even though they risk is low they arent practical aquarium animals. they require a huge amount of sand space and grow very large, bets to stay away from them.

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