feather dusters jumping ship ????????

[medican]

help please........

I have 3 well now 1 fether duster that have jumped out of there tubes......
2 have died and the one left has left his tube ans lost his head dress, I know they will do this(lose there feathers) from breading and stress but why are they all leaving there tubes behind ?????? can I put them back in ???????

Thanks in advance....

 

[lilismom1]

mine did the same thing before it died. the only thing i could think of that i did wrong was acclimate it to my tank rather quickly like 10-15 minutes. so far that's been my only casualty. knock on wood!

 

[medican]

lets me answer my own question....

Can you say arrow crab mine has been doing very well in my tank....about 6 in in width. just caught him pulling out my last feather duster that I had put in his tube and seemed to be doing fine. I will be trying to take back the crab to my LFS

 

[specialk]

Feather Dusters are very hard to keep in an aquarium long term. Also Hermit crabs will pick away at them.

Kaye