Keeping a sea squirt

[daniella3d]

Those tunicates are incredibly hard to keep. They slowly starve in aquarium and I have never seen anyone keep them for long.

I tried 2 and although I feed my tank heavily with all sort of filter feeder food like fauna marin, reefroid, coral frenzy, zooplankton and phytoplankton, they still died in a few months. They get black and die.

They need a certain orientation to the current, and they need a constant amount of iodine because without it they cannot produce the mucus they need to absorb nutriments.

REally awesome but you slowly watch them die.

Originally Posted by Douglas

Just looking for info, opinions, or experiences on keeping these interesting creatures. I've attached a picture of the type of sea squirt.

[naesco]

Unless you have a small aquarium with lots of live rock and feed phyto/zoo to the point that the water is coloured or are a marine scientist studying this speices, do not attempt to keep these as they will starve to death.

[StirCrazy]

forget about buying them like has been said. in a good set up they will occure naturaly, maybe not the type you pictured but you will get sponges and tunicates eventualy.

Steve

[daniella3d]

In deed...I do have a little pink one that is about 3/4" that appeared not so long ago and it has set itself where I have very strong current and absolutely no light doing there. It is a little pink tunicate, not sure where it comes from.

Each time I remove that rock for cleaning I think it's going to die being exposed to air but it survive. I wish I could relocate it though! lol!

Originally Posted by StirCrazy

forget about buying them like has been said. in a good set up they will occure naturaly, maybe not the type you pictured but you will get sponges and tunicates eventualy.

Steve