TigerTail Cucumber In a Bare-bottom tank??

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I am breaking down my old tank, and I have about 5 or 6 TigerTails in it. My new tank is BB, and I was wondering if anyone has experience keeping Tigertail cucumbers in a Bare Bottom tank.
 

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No. And no one should. Tigertails ingest sand as part of their diet. They digest all the organic matter on the sand particles and then poop out the clean sand. So a sandless tank is a foodless tank and a slow painful death for a cucumber.
 
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No. And no one should. Tigertails ingest sand as part of their diet. They digest all the organic matter on the sand particles and then poop out the clean sand. So a sandless tank is a foodless tank and a slow painful death for a cucumber.
thank you, turned them all in to my lfs
 

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