Cucumber or Sea Apple?

[snowhite]

We picked this up about 6 months ago as a Pink Sea Cucumber, but since then we've had people say it was a Sea Apple, which it doesn't seem to be to me. Seems like a filter feeding Sea Cucumber to me.

He'll stick in one place for a while and then take a hike to a different area. For a month or so he's been living on that mushroom rock with the mushroom's draped over him and just his head sticking out. At one point he wandered all the way up to the top of the Biocube 32 to the edge of the water level. I relocated him back to bottom and increased flow down there and he's stayed put since.

Do these guys reproduce Asexually or how?

Here's a video of him in 4K.


another video of him/her from a different angle showing more of body.

 

[Crabs McJones]

It does look like a Sea Apple to me.

 

[sfin52]

I would say thats a sea apple. They do come in many different colors.

 

[snowhite]

It does look like a Sea Apple to me.

Hopefully there's an expert here.
He does his own thing and I supplement his filter feeding with spot feedings of some assorted stuff I feed to my sps and lps.

I've gone back and forth on it... and then I'll see things that hint that Cucumbers and Apple are essentially the same.
Then I'll see something like this that looks like him. The third photo down is almost exactly him.

Happy Spring! Here's some bright pink and orange sea cucumbers (sea apples)! WOO!

Fantastic image by Arthur Anker- Colochirus quadrangularis Today, we welcome spring with these awesome brightly colored sea cucumbers ...

echinoblog.blogspot.com

 

[Crabs McJones]

@KJ

 

[TriggerFinger]

I thought sea apples were a name given to a specific type of cucumber...regardless, I think it’s a really neat looking critter!

 

[Wolf89]

Sea apples are sea cucumbers. Apples are cucumbers! So take your pick

 

[KJ]

Cucumber.

 

[snowhite]

Now I'm kind of searching regarding propagation of the little buggers.

 

[AcroNem]

They are cucumbers, and that one is a filter feeder, they can be challenging to maintain long term. Propagation is sexual, although I've seen a few other cucumber species split into 2 before.

 

[snowhite]

He's been going fine in the BioCube 32 for about 7-8 months now, but we cater to him.