serpentine5
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I am pulling out my hair! I just bought a nice big featherduster from my local store. I aclimated it, and placed the sand covered part in a crevice and the opening part protruding out of the live rock. No sooner than I took my hand out of the tank, my shrimp, pepermint and skunk, attacted it. I just thought they were checking out the new addition to the tank. I go back about 15 minutes later and see this white stringy spider web stuff all over and there is this one pepermint who is chewing a hole into the side of the tube! I promptly stick my hand into the tank and chase off the shrimp. I took the FD and placed it on the sand bed and covered him up to the point that was covered in the tank he came from. The shrimp came back and found him and started to eat the same spot. The feathers actually came out of the top.?So I burried the FD above the part the shrimp was intent on eating. The feathers never went in when I burried him this time. Looking at him now, it has stood its self out of the sand to the orriginal bury line, the shrimp is not messing with him, and the feathers are still out.
What is the spider web stuff? And why is the pepermint shrimp trying to eat him? The duster did come from a shop that had a lot of aptasia in several tanks, but I hade sure that I did not see any in this tank. Could there have been an aptasia seed on it and the pepermint smelt it and had to eat it? Whats up?Still no shrimp, and the feathers are still out. I can see feathers through the hole the shrimp made. Do I need to worry, or will it heal its self?
What is the spider web stuff? And why is the pepermint shrimp trying to eat him? The duster did come from a shop that had a lot of aptasia in several tanks, but I hade sure that I did not see any in this tank. Could there have been an aptasia seed on it and the pepermint smelt it and had to eat it? Whats up?Still no shrimp, and the feathers are still out. I can see feathers through the hole the shrimp made. Do I need to worry, or will it heal its self?