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Hitchhiker sea cucumber


Xj reefing

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A few months ago after I bought some macro algae for my fuge I found a baby sea cucumber. I posted on here when I first found it and didn’t get a confirmed species but now it’s grown a lot bigger I’m hoping someone might know what it is. The cucumber has lived in my sump and has been grazing on what ever is growing down there.

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4 minutes ago, Xj reefing said:

A few months ago after I bought some macro algae for my fuge I found a baby sea cucumber. I posted on here when I first found it and didn’t get a confirmed species but now it’s grown a lot bigger I’m hoping someone might know what it is. The cucumber has lived in my sump and has been grazing on what ever is growing down there.

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I admit it does look scary at first, but it is an undeniably cool hitchiker/critter as well. 👀

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Neat! Clearly it's a detritus eater if it's been thriving down there, but I'm not sure how likely you are to get a full ID. There are a lot of sea cucumbers, and I don't imagine they're particulaly well-studied. Where was the algae from? Location in the world might help. 

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I bought the chaeto from a store that only buys in Australian livestock. So it would of come from the Great Barrier Reef. I’m thinking it would have come in on a coral the bought and somehow got sucked down into where they keep their chaeto.

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