Anyone have Feather Dusters? and......

I wanted to know from those who have these in their tanks, what light conditions, other inhabitants, and params would be correct for these?

 

I have a crap load of tiny white featherdusters, no tube worms. I'm not sure of the exact pristine conditions they require but I have them growing in extreme high light and in completely dark areas so I do not believe light plays a role. They are filter feeders so a spot with low to medium is probably best, just not the dead spots.

There are wrasses that will eat them. I have never had an explosive problem with them but I did get a rock from a buddy with about 5 of them on it and their population exploded and the rock is completely 100% covered. For some reason the dusters do not all multiply as fast.

I had a couple rocks I got locally that had a bunch on them and the water in the bucket went from 65 degrees to 85 within hours, back to 65 for 4 days. All of the dusters survived.

 

yes my tank is covered with tine red ones, they are in the fuge and everywhere.

 

same here they are every where little red ones that is

 

i had one hitchhike to me on a rock from the LFS. the intended location for the rock was going to put the featherduster completely out of line-of-sight to the lighting and facing downwards toward the sand. its been fine so far even through cycling. pops open, closes up at night. its neat cuz its currently the only life in my tank beside the damsels and the donated anemone

 

Do you mean fan worms or feather dusters? I think most folks here (except for mission) are talking about fan worms.

 

fail.... yes i was referring to worms. not the tubular dusters that you can buy... sorry

 

these are the three i have in my reef. they seem to care less about light and are fed marine snow. i had a peppermint shrimp a while back that ate all my fan worms after demolishing my aptaisa infestation. he's gone now and would not dare putting any kind of shrimp in with these.

 

I usually have the larger feather duster worms in my tank from time to time but also have the little ones that crop up on rocks. Light doesn't matter to these worms because they are filter feeders and gather phytoplankton or bacterioplankton in their "feathers" to eat. A good sand bed is helpful as the worms like to bury their tubes in the sand as well. They would probably benefit from the addition of phytoplankton unless you have a fuge or other conditions that support lots of production. Low to medium current is good for them as well.

There are different kinds of fish and critters that will kill the worms so you would have to do your homework on the fish you have and their habits before adding a purchased one to your tank.