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Holothuria sp.
$15.00
A small Atlantic sea cucumber that sifts the sand bed for detritus.
In stock and eating
From our species guide
In plain words: A sea cucumber is a soft, slow animal shaped like a fat sausage. It is a cousin of starfish and sea urchins. These ones come from the warm, shallow seas near Florida and the Caribbean. They live on sand and in sea grass.
Atlantic sea cucumbers are slow, peaceful sand sifters that swallow sand and digest the detritus and film coating it, leaving the bed cleaner. This listing is a small one. It needs a mature tank with a wide bed of fine sand, and every pump intake and overflow must be covered, because an injured or dying cucumber can release a toxin that kills fish.
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