feather dusters and mushrooms

[e-cat]

i bought 10 more pounds of live rock topday got some more mushrooms and a lot of feather dusters, iv read that to feed them use a baster and squirt food into there fans, should i use crushed flakes or fry powered food, baby brine shrimp? also what and how do i reed the musgrooms.

 

[steve-s]

Feather dusters require little or no intervention on your part as far as foods are concerned. They are considered fine filter feeders and the foods you mention are far to large for these food types to benefit the dusters. They will however feed off the DOC in the water quite well. If the tank is still fairly young (<6 month) you could suppliment with some Micro-vert and/or live phytoplankton sparingly about 2-3 times a month.

The mushrooms will on the otherhand benefit somewhat from the addition of very fine meatier foods but will be almost as independant with the correct lighting.

Cheers
Steve