Feather duster massacre

[saltwaterkid]

Ok, this morning I was looking in my tank and noticed my feather duster was featherless. I didn't have time to do any investigations because I had to go to work. I just came home and noticed he was no longer in his tube. I had no idea where he went. I looked around the tank and noticed on top of my rock structure a wormlike creature dangling over the rocks. A fairly large blue-legged crab was attacking and eating it. Are blue-legged hermits known for doing something like this? Somebody dragged that worm to his deathbed. Grrrrr...

 

[b_ball12_99]

They tend to shed their crown (feathers) and if they want a new place then leave their tubes and move. It might have been dead or ill when the hermit got it. Wouldn't worry about it too much.

 

[kymbra]

I almost had a murder myself. I bought a chocolate chip starfish before I started reading about what is good in a reef tank, and He tried to eat my feather duster. I am trading him tomorrow. I can't deside which one to trade for though.... Blue or Red? What do you think? I am very new at all this.

 

[dad]

i'll agree with b_ball. most likely it went to find a new home and unless you have the proper"mud"etc. it probly died on it's own.

 

[ironreef]

most fether dusters make anywhere a home. They like sand but can live in LR. They are very easy to keep in a nutrient tank.= feed fish good or phyto added @dt. But the shoot there feathers when something bothers it or it spawns. It can grow back unless something was bothering it and it died

 

[frenchman]

My feather duster hated the vertical position (against and between rocks). It left its tube and could not find it for a day or two. I eventually found it under a rock, creating a new tube, and laying horizontal. It seems to love that position now.