Holothuria With A Gash On His/her Back.

[gregswimm]

So a few days ago I moved my holothuria to my fuge from my display (same water) and this evening I noticed my rainfordi;s goby acting strange, just laying on the floor. I went and checked out the sump and saw my cucke on the return pump (it is covered in foam) and saw a big white gash in the side of it. 
 
This morning my house was much dryer, than normal so the water level droped a lot and my return was shooting bubbles in the display. I poured a good bit of RO in the fuge till it was back at normal level. Could I have caused the cucke osmotic stress?


Tested my ammo, it is at .025 >_<.   I dossed some prime and the goby is back to normal.  Ill do a w/c when the LFS opens manana.  I also added some GAC to the fuge.

 

[Donya]

This morning my house was much dryer, than normal so the water level droped a lot and my return was shooting bubbles in the display. I poured a good bit of RO in the fuge till it was back at normal level. Could I have caused the cucke osmotic stress?

 
I doubt it unless there was a really big swing. The net volume of RO you added to the tank relative to the volume of existing water can't have been too big I would assume. Salinity shock in echinoderms usually has inactivity, either going rigid or floppy for a while and then often falling apart. If the cuc is still cucing like normal then it's probably fine. 
 
That mark on the back really looks like something cut into it or scraped a section out of it. Probably it wiggled through something with a sharp edge or managed to contact a sharp piece of equipment it shouldn't have. Sea hares are prone to very similar looking injuries. All it takes is a hole that is just barely big enough to let them force through but not big enough to let them fit through without a lot of pressure. If the fish were acting strange, it could be due to such an event causing some body fluids to escape, or the cuc being stressed and deliberately cuc nuking a bit much in the same way that injured sea hares will ink a bit if they cut themselves.

 

[gregswimm]

Makes sence, I do have some poorly filled eggcrate in there that is pointy.  I have him in a pitcher of water now.  The water has already turned a yellow/green from him only being in there a few hours >_<

When do you think a good time is to put him back in?

 

[gregswimm]

There was a time when I kept a jug of SW in my closet for such an occasion, but i got lazy and used it for a water change.  >_<'

 

[Donya]

The water has already turned a yellow/green from him only being in there a few hours >_<

When do you think a good time is to put him back in?

 
Oh dear that's bad. Hopefully it's just still angry and isn't having adverse effects from an infection (they're not good at overcoming those if they set in). It may yet be fine, but make sure the water gets changed out frequently on it. Might also do with a small bag of GAC in there if it's really coloring up fast. I would wait until it's able to go a few days with the water being crystal clear the whole time before considering putting it back.

 

[gregswimm]

Well, the water is back to being clear and the wound is nearly fully closed.

 

[gregswimm]

It's been tucked in a tight ball for almost 24h now.  No idea what is going on.  It is in a pitcher floating in the tank with air line.  I chage the water 2x a day and dose a drop of prime.

 

[Donya]

Any sign of movement from it? If it's tightly contracted it must be ok still in some sense, since they flop when they die. 

 

[gregswimm]

What do you mean by flop?

 

[Donya]

Going limp and deflating a bit. 

 

[gregswimm]

I put it back in the tank just 5 min ago.  When I moved it, it got out of the water a bit and started turning soft and 'runny'.  He appears VERY hungry.  Almost imediately uppon introduction he began waving his head/tentacles around looking for somewhere to start feeding.

I was wrong about the wound, it is still there, I was looking in the wrong spot.  It is closing nicely.