feather duster

There is this bubble mesh on a medium small feather duster just below the tube worms opening. I assume the feather duster is doing this but was just wondering if anyone knew for what purpose? I’m just curious. I was almost thinking it was scaffolding because it was planing on rapidly expanding...

There is this bubble mesh on a medium small feather duster just below the tube worms opening. I assume the feather duster is doing this but was just wondering if anyone knew for what purpose? I’m just curious.

I got a feather duster from my LFS yesterday. It is not quite 24 hours old. While drip acclimating and throughout the ride home the crown was out. The worm it’s self is not out of the tube and he has looked like this all the time (see picture). I tried spot feeding him this morning and he didn’t...

I was about to do a water change when I saw these guys in the back of my tank. I need to be certain if this is aiptasia as this is not to be taken lightly if untaken care of it will over run my tank. If they are feather dusters I will leave them alone. The tank has been up and running about 2...

Hi everyone. I just added this feather duster to the tank. Is this a good location for it. Does it seem like it is flowing well?

I have Reef Roids and Red Sea AB+ for coral feeding. I am getting Reef Nutrition's Phyto Feast for feeding any filter feeders. I am also getting Oyster Feast for general feeding for fish, inverts, and corals. I plan to get a few regular and dwarf feather dusters. My question is, can I house a...

Hi guys I need some help. I'm trying to get my LFS to order a special variant of feather duster for me, but the only kind available is Sabellastarte Spectabilis, which is just the typical large Hawaiian feather duster. I don't know if this duster is just a color variant of purple and gold/...

Hello there, I just bought a 4 yo tank, there is literally thousands of feather duster tubes in my corner overflow box, onto AND into the pvc pipes. How can I wash them off safely for my critters?!? Got a couple yards of PVC plumbings lolll

Has anybody ever come across a feather duster living inside a brain coral, I have had it 3 months and it is thriving with the exception of an unexpected hitchhiker. Up until the last couple of days all has looked great now the mouth closest to where the fan pops out is looking a little ballooned...

So I got a dwarf colored feather duster yesterday and it wont come out of its tube. A couple of crabs pulled apart the top of it's tube. I think it was dead tissue but I'm not sure. It anchored itself in the sand behind a rock this morning. Does this happen a lot? What should I do?

Hi all - there's a ton of tiny white things with feather-like heads growing on the glass and on the back of the tank. They look exactly like mini feather dusters. Is that what they are? Are they bad or indicative of anything negative? Included is a picture.

Just thought I would share one of my turbo snail hosting a pair of feather dusters. I'm also worried they might hurt the snail somehow in the long run, what do you guys think? They appear to be on the outside of the shell, at least for now.

Hello! I bought some dry live rock and am in the process of fishless-cycling my tank. Today I just noticed this little guy and can’t quite seem to figure out what it is. A feather duster of some kind maybe? Hopefully nothing bad!! Thanks!

Hey all, I was moving some stuff around that tank and noticed this little feather duster on my green torch. I've never encountered this with a feather duster before... Wondering if this is going to be an issue or if I should take the little guy off. What's the community say? Thank you for...

Hi y’all! I finished putting this little video together today and figured this would be a perfect place to post it. I’m a bit of a feather duster nerd, as I currently have 4 different species in my little tank, and I love to capture footage of them just doing whatever feather dusters do. This...

I got some corals from WWC about two weeks ago. I didn't dip them upon arrival as I'm new to corals... I've kept them in a separate tank to monitor them. Here's what I see so far in terms of possible pests/hitchhikers. If you can please help me identify them and possible remedies, I'd be...

Can anyone help me identify this and figure out if it is bad for the coral and my tank ?

So I have a mushroom with a feather duster worm almost underneath it, it currently split in two halves and I have a feeling it may have been irritated by the feather worm, I have another mushroom on the other side that is doing extreamly well that also has a duster worm underneath it but its...

Hi guys. I bought a zoa colony from the LFS. A healthy colony. A werk later i noticed these tiny (5mm) fan like think protruding between the zoas. I thought it was aiptasia and tried aiptasia x. The little bugger was to fast and this was not successful. I then tried superglue. This didn’t...

Anyone have an idea of what my feather duster worm is doing? The last picture is from a month ago and the middle was last week and the white one is this evening. Could this be normal? Is it just regrowing it’s chipped tube?

Yellow feather duster - Sabellastarte spectabilis

So I did a bunch of changes (sort of) to my tank. I got 6 coral frags last weekend in the WWC Live Sale (got them 8/1), I bought a lawnmower blenny (7/26), I bought a cleaner shrimp, and I bought 3 peppermint shrimp (all 4 shrimp yesterday). I have had a feather duster worm since April- he's...

I have some zoas that are starting to grow up the stem of my large feather duster's tube. Recently they damaged the tube and I thought my feather duster was done for. Today I spotted some feathers sticking out. Is there any way I can remove some of the zoas without further damage to the worm...

My feather duster has been acting weird for the past week or two. I noticed she was staying in her tube more than normal and I would see only one "feather" sticking out at times. I was worried. I've had her for well over a year now and she's seemed quite content. For the past few days she's been...

Yesterday I added a new feather duster to my tank. This evening I spotted this on the rock near where the feather duster casing sits. Is this the feather duster? I'm a bit worried that my sexy shrimp are interested in it. I've had mixed results with these guys - some I've had for a year (still...