dead cucumber

[jaydsl]

hi bad news
had a cucumber get stuck in power head last night now all fish are dead

my ? is how do i fix this ?
do i have to start again or can i just do a water change ?

i do have a frogspawn and a toadstool , and some mushrooms
are they going to die aswell ?

[i have crabs]

definatly do some waterchanges and make shure you have a bunch of carbon in the filter, other than that i dont really know if the cuke's toxins affect corals and other stuff,its a crappy deal but i would just keep running carbon and watch the corals for a while see how they do.

[Trigger Man]

Ya you are going to have to get all the water out and do tonnes of waterchanges as well as use a tonne of carbon. I was talking to Golds aquariums about cucumbers and sea apples and they had mentioned that when a sea apple died in their tank even with completly changing the water a few times they still had problems for a while. I had a cucumber take out one of my tanks a while back and I cleaned out the tank completly and tossed out all the rocks just incase (problably over reacted). I have used the tank for qting a couple of times and all of the fish I put in it had no problems.
Good luck with the restocking.

[jaydsl]

thanks already started

too bad the aptashia is still alive :P
it even took out some crabs and i see a wack of see lice or what ever you want to call them on the bottom some small worms too


thats one toxic cucumber
never knew it would be that bad

[Leah]

Wow that is to bad, hope everything else is okay. Makes me remember why i don't have
one it is tempting when you see cute ones.

[Tangman]

Good luck with the water change , sorry to hear about your fish, terrible loss

[chandigz]

What type of cuccumber?

[dsaundry]

If you keep a cucumber or Sea Hare, make sure you put sponge around the intakes....sorry about the loss...

[jaydsl]

it was a black one don't know the exact name , and ya a sponge would have worked , but brain was not thinking that , now i know for next time , ounce sump is built there will be no power heads that can do damage in the tank

[reeferious]

i had two red worm cucumbers up til 3 weeks ago, exotic looking things that stretch out to more than foot long and doing darn good job of mopping up craps. anyway took all precautions from letting them wandering into any power inlets, but the fact remains if anything happens to them your fish is going to suffer big time and so to trim my worry factor down i ended up giving them away to a friend who's into keeping oddities like these. now i sleep so much better knowing my tank's safe from nuking.