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Unread 10/08/2013, 06:20 AM   #1
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Bought chaeto for refugium, got feather dusters?

Bought a ball of chaeto for my refugium this past weekend.
last night I notice I have "alot" of one inch long feather dusters in there as well.
Do I need to be alarmed?


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Unread 10/08/2013, 06:41 AM   #2
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Are you sure they are feather dusters? They usually attach themselves to a solid substraight.


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Unread 10/08/2013, 06:51 AM   #3
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There not your regular feather dusters they won't get any bigger. There like Astria star fish and all the other tiny version life forms you find. They shouldn't hert anything. I had them at one point not sure what happened to them but there gone now.


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Unread 10/08/2013, 06:55 AM   #4
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Are you sure they are feather dusters? They usually attach themselves to a solid substraight.
They look exactly like a large feather duster with tube and feather, but they are one inch long.
When I shined a light on one, he pulled back into his tube.
I'll post a picture when I get home tonight.
They are in the chaeto, and some have fallen out and are sitting on the glass bottom.


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Unread 10/08/2013, 07:08 AM   #5
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If they are feather dusters there is no need to be alarmed. They are harmless filterfeeders.


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Unread 10/08/2013, 09:50 AM   #6
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just another indicator that there is plenty of food in the water. like algae, tube worms are just an indicator that the system has enough food for them.

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Unread 10/08/2013, 02:54 PM   #7
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Unread 10/08/2013, 02:59 PM   #8
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Yup that is a feather duster


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Unread 10/09/2013, 03:09 PM   #9
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Yup that is a feather duster

I have many in the fuge.
Leave them or is it OK to move some to the DT?


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Unread 10/09/2013, 03:25 PM   #10
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I would not move them. I hate it when they grow on a zoa rock- they bother my zoas and don't let them open.


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