Unexpected Find

[bbb]

I was cleaning the front of my tank when I saw something moving in the sand. I didn't know feather dusters could live in the sand like that. And what's even weirder is that I don't have any other feather dusters that I know of. I did have 3 a while back but they disappeared except for their tubes (which have either fallen out of site or have been eaten).

 

[grubsnaek]

thats crazy

 

[alix2.0]

cool. how big is it? is it like the tiny kind you find on rocks, or the big kind that like lfs sell?

 

[luca brasi]

They sometimes leave their tube

 

[bbb]

Originally Posted by alix2.0
cool. how big is it? is it like the tiny kind you find on rocks, or the big kind that like lfs sell?
It's pretty small right now and I don't know which kind it is. I guess the feather part is about half an inch to three quarters of an inch tall.
Originally Posted by Luca Brasi
They sometimes leave their tube
I know but I haven't seen any signs of my old ones for about 9 or 10 months. Plus they were quite a bit bigger than this one.

 

[ophiura]

They are very common hitch hikers, and there are lots of species. Most likely you had some on LR or something, and you ended up with some in the sand as well.

 

[reefer545]

Why be surprised by an environment we know little about, and moreso, why be surpris3ed by a specimen which we all know is tough, regenerative, and totally pr3evalent? Of course a tube worm (of all creatures) would survive.