Feather duster help..wont open

[bosstoneschick]

Can anyone help me? It has been in the tank a week now and I have never seen it open...I have it in a low flow area and I don't have any fish that would bother it...does it look ok? I've been trying to spot feed it plankton...I've also smelled it and there's no bad smell like when a snail dies...salinity is 1.025 ammonia 0 nitrite 0 nitrate 5...my other corals are all good...I didn't check mag cal etc yet

 

[T-J]

Probably starving/stressed, looking at how white that sand is. How old is the tank?

 

[bosstoneschick]

Probably starving/stressed, looking at how white that sand is. How old is the tank?

6 months

 

[vtecintegra]

Are you sure it's in there? They will abandon the tube if something is wrong. I had one I thought was dead, and found it later somewhere else. It built a new tube.

 

[T-J]

6 months

Wow, that looks pretty clean for 6 months. Feather dusters need a mature tank since they are filter feeders. Do you have a FTS so we can see the condition of your DT?

Are you sure it's in there? They will abandon the tube if something is wrong. I had one I thought was dead, and found it later somewhere else. It built a new tube.

This could have happened as well.

 

[John Bolden]

I've got fether dusters in my rock and there happy and my tank is 2 months old.

 

[Hydrored]

It’s not really age of tank as much as feeding, most younger tanks feed very little compared to a more mature one. I have a huge population of them but I also have different planktons on a doser. Most will find they increase and decrease population based on feeding regiment, a lot like vermentid

 

[T-J]

It’s not really age of tank as much as feeding, most younger tanks feed very little compared to a more mature one. I have a huge population of them but I also have different planktons on a doser. Most will find they increase and decrease population based on feeding regiment, a lot like vermentid

Basically what I was getting at. Mature/older tanks usually have more fish and corals which means more feedings. A new tank may only have minimal fish,etc. with minimal amounts of feeding.

 

[Hydrored]

Basically what I was getting at. Mature/older tanks usually have more fish and corals which means more feedings. A new tank may only have minimal fish,etc. with minimal amounts of feeding.

I knew where you were going and agree, I was directing my answer more to @John Bolden and forgot to quote

Just because people can do something and get away with it doesn’t mean other folks will. I don’t want a new member reading it’s ok when odds are they won’t last in a new tank. Once you start growing sponges and see a healthy pod population “generally” feather dusters do fine

 

[John Bolden]

Mine are in the rock and close up really fast.

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

you mean you havent seen it at all since you brought it home? maybe it shed its feathers during the ride home or the acclimation, the only time I didnt see my duster for 2 weeks is when it shed its feathers.