FEATHERDUSTERS (need help) !!

[lan12]

Any information on these inverts...??

 

[hot883]

Basically a featherduster is a worm that cast a shell house using substances in the tank. At the top of the worm is the featherduster used to gather food from the water column. They can pop off their tops and sometimes if not happy with your placement, leave their tube. They will build another as long as they are not disturbed. Very NON agressive and wonderful additions to the tank. my clowns actually host in mine.

 

[lan12]

Yes...i understand all of that..i ment..what about the lighing and water flow and will my 2 dwarf angels (lemonpeel and flame) eat him??...and i also have a percula clown...just wandering if those fish will do ok...and what things do i place them or what is recommended?

 

[wax32]

Light doesn't matter, lowish water flow. Your angels might pick at them. Lots of the feather dusters that you buy on purpose don't do real well. The small hitchhiker ones are hard to kill. Go figure.

 

[hot883]

Originally Posted by Lan12
Yes...i understand all of that..i ment..what about the lighing and water flow and will my 2 dwarf angels (lemonpeel and flame) eat him??...and i also have a percula clown...just wandering if those fish will do ok...and what things do i place them or what is recommended?
They require no special lighting at all. My bi-color angel pays mine no attention. I placed mine in little flow area on the sand substrate. Hope the picture helps.

 

[azocean709]

i watched a small hitchhiker duster crawl across the glass of the tank i went back about an hour later and the lil guy planted him self in the corner in the sand....the reason i say this...it is the corner least hit by flow. in that corner also little light reaches that point because the live rocks have like a little cliff there. so light is not a factor.

 

[mikeyjer]

The larger ones are harder to keep. When there's less nutrients within the water, they die off. There's not a known process on how to keep them alive cause they still don't know exactly what they eat. The smaller ones that hitchhike on your LR usually do pretty well unless there's less nutrient within your water, then the number will decline eventually. I have a small one in my tank, now there's 3 of them and their dusters have grown bigger too! I didn't know they would grow? They're twice the size they were before. :happyfish

 

[celacanthr]

I think there was an article written about them... on this site even... by me in fact! YOu can find a bunch of answers there.