Sea Cucumber has stuff coming out of it.
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I need some information and advice immediatey. I just purchased a sea cucumber Holothuria floridana yesterday. I notic this evening that it is very thin and has some clear almost white stuff hanging out of the end of it and it is very thin looking compaired to earlier in the day. It is still moving, but it just keeps expelling stuff (not sand) Should I remove it from my tank immediately and try to get the stuff out of the tank that it has expelled? Should I just leave him be? I am not sure what is going on but I am a little concerned that maybe he is expelling his internal organs. Are my fish and corals going to die? Please help
I need some information and advice immediatey. I just purchased a sea cucumber Holothuria floridana yesterday. I notic this evening that it is very thin and has some clear almost white stuff hanging out of the end of it and it is very thin looking compaired to earlier in the day. It is still moving, but it just keeps expelling stuff (not sand) Should I remove it from my tank immediately and try to get the stuff out of the tank that it has expelled? Should I just leave him be? I am not sure what is going on but I am a little concerned that maybe he is expelling his internal organs. Are my fish and corals going to die? Please help
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that white stuff is used as a defense mechanism much like octopus uses ink.