Feather dusters

I have small feather dusters every where. There are over growing some of my corals. What can I do to get rid of them? I know some are ok but there are probably 100 of them attached to my live rock. What eats them? I've tried pulling them off by hand but it does not work very well. Thanks Jon

 

What kind of feather duster, if its a bloom, it could be spiroid, vermetid, pineapple sponges etc, what do they look like? A pic is great

 

I will get a pic or 2 and post them. They look like a 1/2" diameter feather duster. The tube portion is attached to the rocks and they are sprouting everywhere.

 

Definitely need a pic. Might be colonial hydroids. Featherdusters don't typically grow over coral.

 

here are a couple pics.

 

Yeah those are feather dusters.

Feed less.

The population will die back with time.

I think they are cool.

 

I agree with you Corailline, I love dusters and those you have a specially nice since they look blue all I can say is you lucky dog, I would take your problem for sure, they won't hurt your Corals at all I don't think, must harm i can imagine them doing is competing with your Corals for food, they look like cluster dusters gone crazy, are those tubes hard or soft?

 

They are soft. I have pulled some out but it seems they come back quickly. LFS says to try a copperband to eliminate the dusters. Im afraid it would eat more than the dusters.

 

yup it sure will. I just pulled a copperband out of my tank tonight and brought him to a buddy for his tank.

He ate acans, snails, hermits, zoanthids, mushrooms ... pretty much everything lol

but they especially like tube worms and aiptasia.

 

I'm with Corailline - I like the look. I had those in a previous tank and loved them.