Feather dusters

[jay_blu]

I bought some Featehr dusters 3 from SWF.com about two mouths ago the first week all tree diched there cones. at the end of last mounth on crawed out of his tube and died! now anouther one is craling out of his tube.....? the last two have grown back there crowns the only thing i can think of is i started running carbon in my wet/dry and feeding my zena's coral life. I have removed my carbon for now every thing else in the tank looks good.....? thanks

 

[clarkiiboi]

Carbon and coral life are not the problem, IMO. Usually throwing the feathers and/or the worm coming out is due to water parameters or something in the tank picking at it or stinging it (stress). List what you have in the tank with them.

 

[jay_blu]

ricordia, acraporia, some zoozs, pink tip haitien, pulsating zeanas, rock anemone, cromis, yellow tail damses, klarki clowns, velvet damsels, SGT majors, scarlet hermets, blue leg hermets, saly light foot crabs, brittle star, blue linka star, sand sifting star fire goby, and a cleaner shrimp.... I think thats it.

 

[jay_blu]

what dose IMO mean?

 

[viper_930]

Acronyms

 

[bigarn]

Originally posted by jay_blu
what dose IMO mean?

IMO.... IN MY OPINION

 

[mbowker]

pink haitan anemone, they can sting right, and they appear to be the only thing that moves thats listed. as far as corals are concerned, everything else seems to be acceptable

 

[rkmartin3]

I have had a feather duster for some time. Suddenly he is extending about 4" or more beyond the crown. When he does retract, the crown never retracts any more. This has been going on for a couple of days now. Is this a sign he's getting ready to die, or is has he just made a New Year's Resolution to be more brave?
Rick

 

[jay_blu]

let me know if he die's mine crawled out and lived just laying on the sand be for a day or so. I thought if he want to do that maby that his thang...... but i decieded maby i would intervien and i put him back in his tube carefully and I think hes dead his tube apears to be swelling and not looking too good so i think I will pull it out and see if it rotting or not.

 

[clarkiiboi]

I am not familar with the corals you have and if they could stress the feather duster or not (only b/c I dont own any of those myself). I guess a better question would of been: are any corals touching the feather duster, have you seen any of the fish or inverts picking at it, and have you checked you water parameters lately? From what I understand, it is very unlikely that the worm would live after leaving its tube (mine didn't). It is possible that it will rebuild a new tube, but I havent seen very many happy endings here. I dont know how you got the worm back in the tube, but to check if it is alive or not just touch the tube--if it jerks its alive, if not then pull it out. HTH

 

[clarkiiboi]

Same thing--check parameters, see if something is picking at it or stinging it, etc. It's not a good sign.

 

[jay_blu]

nothing is near it and i pulled it out pritty dead. I just would like to know what happened I still have one left and it is doing very well I just hope nothing hapens to it. yes i checked my water
ph 8.3
alk norm
nitrates 0
nitrites 0
amonia 0
calcuim 450ppm
s/g 1.023
temp 79 deg
all that my test reads for Alk as "norm" "high" and "low" is this aceptable or should I get a difrent one its a red sea test kit. is there any more test kits I should really invest in remeber im kinda on a budget?
I do have some brown slime algie that i am hopeing will clear up soon mostly just on my sand.
Today i bought a colt coral and a SM Derasa Clam and two fire goby's (I Love those guys)