feather dusters???

[saltrookie53]

Baby feather dusters??? I think that's what they are called.

 

[KJ]

Yes.

 

[saltrookie53]

thank you. @KJ

 

[Joshua Hurst]

Wow that's a lot more than I have! I noticed a few about 2 months ago. I think their kinda cute

 

[chad fenner]

I thought that's what I had as well... turned out they were hydroids! Ended up swapping out rocks to get rid of them....

 

[KJ]

Baby feather dusters??? I think that's what they are called.

Can you post some more clear pics of the baby feather dusters, I am thinking it may be something else like Chad had mentioned? I am not sure 100%

 

[chad fenner]

Can you post some more clear pics of the baby feather dusters, I am thinking it may be something else like Chad had mentioned? I am not sure 100%

Mine looked a bit different than what the pic shows. They were patches and the "feathers" seemed to glow green in the actinics... there is quite a few different types of hydroids tho...

 

[saltrookie53]

I ended up having to take the rock out and Acid bath it to kill some glass anme.. so I don't have any photos

 

[Babygecko1233]

Here's a grown feather duster if that helps. You can look at the texture and compare them maybe. Do they retract fast? Mine hides when we put our lights on lunar mode 100•\• blue LEDs

 

[Joshua Hurst]

I also have these things in my tank, and it's been my assumption that these are glass enemones. To kill em I let em grow and then shoot a little vinegar into it the trunk looking part, but I'm not really sure either. I'll post some pictures when I get home

 

[Joshua Hurst]

I ended up having to take the rock out and Acid bath it to kill some glass anme.. so I don't have any photos

Is that the only way to get rid of them? I thought these things are in most reef tanks, and just require some maintaince.

 

[FugeTown]

Aren't glass anemones another word for aptasia?

 

[saltrookie53]

Aren't glass anemones another word for aptasia?

yes

 

[FugeTown]

Oh cause the pics look much different then aptasia wouldn't you say so? I'm gonna take a shot in the dark and guess feather dusters, do they have a white or light colored tube it hides inside of?

 

[saltrookie53]

the photos were different.

 

[FugeTown]

the photos were different.

I know the photo I shared is aptasia your photo looks completely different , the little tentacles on your pics have a feathery look like feather duster the pic a shared is aptasia smooth tentacles that kinda reach out like a claw

 

[Blacktank]

I agree, not aptasia, it is feather dusters

 

[Joshua Hurst]

Oh cause the pics look much different then aptasia wouldn't you say so? I'm gonna take a shot in the dark and guess feather dusters, do they have a white or light colored tube it hides inside of?

Beware!!! That is a glass anemone

 

[Joshua Hurst]

I thought it was a feather duster, and it almost killed my blasto!

 

[FugeTown]

I thought it was a feather duster, and it almost killed my blasto!

Yea I know the pic I shared I found on google , I've had them before and killed with aptasia x cause I didnt have a plague amount of them thank god but was just showing the difference in his pic with the pic I shared cause there's no mistaking aptasia when you've had the ugly things in your tank