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Old 07-28-2006, 10:59 PM
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I had a tiger cucumber (and still do as far as I know) in my 230g tank. He has never harmed anything and takes pretty good care of my sandbed.
Last night when I was pulling the clumps of calurpa and grape calurpa that have taken over my sump out I noticed a brown lump - didn't think that much of it and just continued to harvest my algea. Anyway up pops another brown lump so I decide to examine it better. It is a tiger cucumber - about 5" long. I go back and find the other lump and sure enough - another cucumber about the same size. WTF? I don't know if there are any more in there or not.
So answer me this - how the heck to these things propogate? Is it possible that somehow a piece got broken off the one in the display and that formed another one that somehow migrated to the sump and further propogated in there?
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Old 07-28-2006, 11:08 PM
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I think they just split.
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Old 07-29-2006, 02:42 AM
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yes they split all the time there Ruth nothing to worry about .
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Old 07-29-2006, 07:37 AM
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They do split, sometimes quite oddly. I had a couple of different splits, some were almost equal in size, and I still have an oddity that was a dwarfish I think..
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