"Pszemol" wrote in message
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"Charles Spitzer" wrote in message
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sorry, no pictures. i think it's Isostichopus fuscus
http://baja.divebums.com/FieldID/Pag...ber_brown.html because i've
been told that that is the most common, but the one i have doesn't match
the pictures that i've been able to find of it. it has the same brown
body, but not the reddish spots.

it stays hidden either in the back of the tank or under the live rock for
months at a time. sometimes it comes out when i clean the tank because it
likes to wave it's tentacles around when the water is turbid and mucked
up. it stayed disappeared for a year once. i'll try to remember to get a
picture for you the next time i clean.

Well... so yours is filterfeeder like mine, not the sand-eating
variation...
How often you clean your tank - maybe I should try to make a "storm" and
mix some detritus in my tank instead of using phytoplankton for feeding
it? :-)

yeah, it waves a lot up in the water, and every so often, it sticks it's
fingers in it's ass to clean them off. i'm pretty lax in doing water
changes, maybe every 6 weeks or so. i just feed flakes to my fish, so
whatever doesn't get eaten just blows around for the hermits and this guy to
catch.