IOM: Feather Dusters, Christmas Tree Worm, CoCo Worms

[55gsw]

Excellent article CELACANTHr and excellent photos everyone!!
I've had various types of featherdusters, from the large caribbean to christmas tree worms and coco worms (the latter being the most delicate IMO). But I have never had a featherduster of any type leave it's tube and live. Now, it's only happened twice in my tanks, but both times the duster died. Here's a pic of a featherduster (type unknown) that came on a piece of LR. Had him for years like my other dusters but the hurricanes last year killed him and the others I had.
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[nofish]

thank you, and nice pics that was alot of info

in small amount of space..i hope you keep this up

 

[bang guy]

Just to mention that they are all classified as Bristleworms

 

[fishieness]

sweet!! i dont think i have ever seen a yellow christmas tree worm!! i bought a piece of live rock with about 15 of them and 20 feather dusters all on a 2 pound piece of rock!! I have neon red, dark red, and even neon blue christmas tree worms, but not yellow!! very nice!
nice post by the way!

 

[celacanthr]

well i loved doing it if someone else doesnt do one (even if someone else wants to do one

) i will do another.

 

[speg]

Took some more pics of my dusters.
The first is a hawaiian duster.
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Second is a bunch of colony dusters (the little red things are all each little dusters).
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Then some Christmas Tree worms.
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And lastly a amazing find.. its a astrea snail with a small duster underneath its shell... attached to the snail! I love it
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[beth]

Faded a bit? LOL If that's faded, I wonder what colorful would be.
Guy, the "beauty" of the dreaded bristleworm.

 

[nomad]

Loved the article and all the pictures! :cheer:

 

[celacanthr]

your welcome!! im thinkin the next will be about alpheus pistol shrimp, Whatcha think?

 

[celacanthr]

i think we are now on the archives woohoo!! :cheer:

 

[symon]

Nice artical, make others appreciate fusters of all sorts ! I love my Feather dusters too!
Look forward to learning more about other things as well.

 

[meadbhb]

Hiya,
My coral beauty scared mine into throwing it's crown and then it left it's tube. I haven't see in since.

Meadbhb

 

[celacanthr]

What else do you have in your tank? A lot of things love dusters for breakfast.

 

[danprospec]

Quick note Blennys have a tendency to nip at the tube and even go into the tube itself when the fan is pulled in. I had a bicolor blenny do it, discussed with my lfs and he said that is pretty common.

 

[fishmamma]

Thank you for your informative post. I would love to see the next one done on pistol shrimp, these fascinating critters seem to be common in the tanks of those who frequent this board.

On a personal note I have given up on dusters for the time being. My biggest challenge has actually been two things.....the worms are always being disrupted by my very active pistol shrimp and then therefor jump their tubes to relocate and get eaten as a result. I have even tried placing them in nooks of rock but the shrimp will pull them down and into his hole or cover them with sand. I have lost 6 dusters this way.

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[celacanthr]

OMG, FishMamma i was thinking the exact same thing about the pistol shrimp. Should i wait till a month from when this was started or go ahead and make one?

 

[fishmamma]

Well I guess that would be up to you. Are there any 'rules' ?? I am eager to read your write-up when ever it is ready. :cheer:

 

[celacanthr]

i think ill start reaserching!

 

[inkman2004]

Very nice thread. Helpfull.

 

[celacanthr]

Anytime! I am here to help (well mostly learn, but i guess helping is good too

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