Well, I’m not exactly a new user—had my tank for many years—but I’ve never been able to devote as much time, money and attention to it as I’d have liked to. And it’s been distinctly on the back burner while I was back in school. During that time a colony of feather dusters or tube worms (“cluster dusters,” perhaps?) got started somehow; I’ve no idea where they came from. They’re all quite small, few of the plumes being as large as a quarter, most smaller than a dime. I like feather dusters and would probably be delighted, except that they have chosen to colonize the front side of my aquarium, making it increasingly difficult to enjoy viewing my tank. There now is a network of perhaps 200 of them laced all across the front side and ONLY the front side. They had not gained a foothold anywhere else till a month or two ago. Now there are also a few of them on a piece of coral, one of them already relatively large, its plume larger than a quarter.
My question: is it possible to move them off the glass onto some rock or dead coral without injuring (many of) them? Most have casings not much thicker than a spaghetti noodle. Would, for example, scraping them off with a razor blade allow most of them to survive?
Second question: I know, now, that I should have researched it first, but I just learned that I should protect my feather dusters from angel fish. Just so happens just days ago I bought a coral beauty angel. Should I anticipate wholesale feather duster slaughter?
Thanks!
Yours truly,
John Mayer
My question: is it possible to move them off the glass onto some rock or dead coral without injuring (many of) them? Most have casings not much thicker than a spaghetti noodle. Would, for example, scraping them off with a razor blade allow most of them to survive?
Second question: I know, now, that I should have researched it first, but I just learned that I should protect my feather dusters from angel fish. Just so happens just days ago I bought a coral beauty angel. Should I anticipate wholesale feather duster slaughter?
Thanks!
Yours truly,
John Mayer