New Feather Duster not Going into Tube when Touched??

W/bucket, tygon hose and small air valve w/a slow drip. I used to only do like 30min-1hr with inverts (feather dusters, shrimps, snails, hermits, etc., no corals), but some would die shortly after. I started doing 3hrs about a year ago with my inverts and have yet to lose one.

 

Wow. I don't even do a drip acclimation and I have NEVER lost a single fish, invert or coral during my acclimations. I float the bag or container they are in and while they are floating I slowly introduce a small amount of my tank water every 10 mins or so for about 45-60 mins. Everytime the bag or container gets too full, I dump some of it in the sink (I don't want any of the other tank water in my system) and keep adding a small amount of my water in the container until it is only my tank water left in the container. That's how I have been doing it since I started saltwater and I haven't lost a single critter. I did it this way with my coco worm and other feather duster too but they were acting normal during acclimation that's why i was a little conserned with this feather duster. But he is now back to normal and darts back into his tube if my shrimp gets too close or if I walk up to the tank too fast lol. So all is good now He must have just been a little shocked. I walked from the LFS with him in the container and it was about a half hour walk, so maybe that could have contributed to how he was acting aswell. Never thought of it until now.

 

Oh, and here's a pic of him incase anyone is interested. I have no idea what species he is as all the soft tube feather dusters at my LFS are only marked as "feather dusters" lol. If anyone knows don't be shy to share! lol. I will also be trying to figure it out on google lol.

 

how do you control temp with that slow of a drip? do you use a heater?

 

Beautiful add! Looks like a Colored Dwarf Featherduster. Although they're called Dwarfs, they're by no means small, just smaller than the Hawaiian Giant.