Green w Pink Yellow Spiny Sea Cucumber

General information

The Pink and Green Sea Cucumber is a colorful filter feeder for home reef aquariums over 30 gallons. Rows of pink knobby thorns run lengthwise along its green and yellow body. Like Sea Apples, striking yellow and pink tentacles extend during feeding. Unlike most other sea cucumbers this animal normally stays stationary, when it finds a suitable location in the aquarium with the proper flow. This species of Sea Cucumber feed by pulling small particulates from the water column, which stick to the hair-like appendages off of its plume. The particulates are then moved to the mouth and ingested. Like other Sea Cucumbers, Pentacta anceps has the potential to poison an aquarium. The Pink and Green Sea Cucumber cannot tolerate high nitrate levels or copper-based medications.