What's your watt's per gallon?

The sea cucumber is most toxic to the fish, so I don't
think you are realy batteling that. If a sea cucumber does
not get enough food, it will slowly shrink using up it's
reserve, and slowly shrink to nothing, and not pose a
risk. If it dies while a good size, it poses a risk, if it
gets chewed up by a powerhead, then it's a real searious
risk, but again, it's more toxic to the fish than the
invertabrates.

So there's something else that is causing your problem.

Consider the posibility of contamination.

Are you adding any additives?
If you are, then stop. Just do large 50% or more
waterchanges without adding extra additives.
Take everything back to basic, and see if things improve.

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets


Pszemol wrote on 12/6/2005 9:19 PM:
"Wayne Sallee" wrote in message
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If it's stickyness is gone, then it is in serious condition.


Yes, this is what bothers me a lot.
The animal was used to not eating frequently.
It was growing so fast I was limiting its growth
with limiting food intake. For month or two at the time
it was under only supervision of the pair of maroon clowns
without dirrect feeding from my side.
When I fed it, it was ALWAYS READY to accept food.
Current state is not normal and worries me a lot.
I can still see it is alive, it is expanding little
and its oral opening reacts to food, but its tentacles
seem to loose the stings to be unable to capture food :-(

Have you not replaced your lighting yet? I would get that lighting
back up. I would be worrying over the lighting more than the lower
nutrients.


Yes, lights are new. I am not happy with pinkish hue
of my new actinic bulb. I got 420nm "Sunpaq" and it
is not as blue as my old 460nm bulb. More pink... :-(