feather duster dead?

[jayt1218]

i have a feather duster that i've had for a couple of months and yesterday I rearranged my live rock and placed him in the rockwork. But later that night he started to come out of his tube. Not just his crown but his whole body. Now he has shed off the entire tube and moved into a cave with in the rockwork. Is he dead? Or is he dying? I've never seen one do that before. I dont know whether to leave him in the tank or take him out. Any ideas?

 

[blackomne]

I would leave him alone. He's looking for a better home. And he may have found. Normally they do not move like that in a tank. But if he decided to go, moving him now would be bad. He would be in the process of reforming a tube at the moment. Leave him unless you know he is dead.

 

[clarkiiboi]

I had one do that, and I posted here about it. It could be forming a new tube, but most likely it wont and will die. I lost the where abouts of mine when this happened and I guess my clean up crew got it. That was at leat a year ago. Just keep an eye out on parameters, though I didnt see a shift. Well that just made it 50/50 with answers, need another to sway it....bump for others