Featherduster

My featherduster just lost its feathers.. lol I know the worm is still alive, it comes up every so often. How long does it take to regenerate new ones?

PS: what are those feathers called?

 

pretty sure it's called it's crown yes unless the worm dies it will grow a new one

 

how did it lose its feathers?

 

Feather duster drop there feather when they don’t get enough to eat. But the funny thing about it is that, they cannot eat without the feathers/crown, so it like a downward slope. I hear you can feed it iodine. BUT it will cloud your water and screw with your par and you have to test for it too. but feather duster are cool to it gets to this point

 

mine lost its feathers and I thought it died, but sure enough a few days later it popped up with new feathers about half the size.

 

No, They do not lose them when they have no food. They lose them to grow new ones as they become damaged. They cannot grow new skin like our skin does, or shed like some snakes, so instead, they just drop em off and grow new ones

 

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Still no crown yet, see the worm pop up still... anyone know about how long ?

 

mine took like a week give it some time

 

yep give it some time. Mine lost its crown and then popped out of the tube it was in.
Turned out it had a sexually reproduced and then i had 2