Is my cucumber too big

basile · Oct 25, 2014

This is my Tiger Tail (Holothuria sp.) . It never split, and i'm wondering why? Does anybody have a reason why they do or if it can be triggered, lol. At 22" long, and 1" wide.

Still growing at 14" on this one

And growing this was months ago

Now one early morning i was able to measure him when he was totally outside the rockwork at 22" in lenght I'm concerned.

Not normaly toxic for a tank, they're usually smaller . Now if this one where to die , then what....He's in a 150G tank, and the sooner he split the better , i'll give away the second part lol. He's very good cleaner, i'm just not sure if its normal to be that big. Anybody have one like that.

I write big for my iphone friends

afamousjohnson · Oct 25, 2014

Mine is roughly around the same length in a 90. Crazy to see sometimes. Believe he split around 2years ago and hasn't since

ewelch · Oct 25, 2014

Man there is a joke here some where!

basile · Oct 25, 2014

afamousjohnson said:
Mine is roughly around the same length in a 90. Crazy to see sometimes. Believe he split around 2years ago and hasn't since

Do you if it takes some kind of condition to make it split? That's what i'm after, i really would like hime to split, because even when he does he'll still be like a foot long......

afamousjohnson · Oct 25, 2014

I dont? Mine was kept in the sump in my fuge to clean the SB when he split. Now hes in the display. Got it from a friend a few years back that had his split like 4 or 5 times in his tank. They were everywhere

afamousjohnson · Oct 25, 2014

Dig those sponges by the way - thumbs up

basile · Oct 26, 2014

afamousjohnson said:
Dig those sponges by the way - thumbs up

Thanks i have 13 of them they pump like crazy, they filter my system every 24 h, i actually have to shut down my skimmer for them to survive. otherwise they starve. Enjoy

basile · Dec 19, 2014

Hope is here

Well it may be happening now, i haven't seen him in 4 days now, and from my book, cukes can hide for a month while splitting the bigger they are the longer it takes for them to reform a mouth or an ........ss and be able to function. One of the reason they need that extra food for the journey....

If you call splitting yourself a journey.... but anyway. So no sight of hime yet! In the off chance that he's dead i've put an extra bag of carbon in the sump, and be praying for split ends lol.