Feather duster problems

[cat910064]

Have a decent amount of feather duster growing all over my softies. The clover and zoa has been colonized by many tube worms or feather duster. The zoa is now closing

don’t really want to get rid of them manually, is there any biocontrol that can wipe them out? I heard people have luck with bumble bee snails? Any thoughts?

 

[cat910064]

Have a decent amount of feather duster growing all over my softies. The clover and zoa has been colonized by many tube worms or feather duster. The zoa is now closing

don’t really want to get rid of them manually, is there any biocontrol that can wipe them out? I heard people have luck with bumble bee snails? Any thoughts?

 

[Fishy888]

It sounds like you have aiptasia in your system. Can you take some pictures under white light? If these creatures have tubes are they white or a reddish color? If they are reddish they’re most likely vermatid snails.

 

[cat910064]

It sounds like you have aiptasia in your system. Can you take some pictures under white light?

Nah I’m pretty sure it’s feather duster
I’m not worried about it til recently they grow all over on some of my corals

 

[cat910064]

 

[AydenLincoln]

Can you post a photo under white light?

 

[cat910064]

Can you post a photo under white light?

Sorry about the bad light.

 

[AydenLincoln]

Sorry about the bad light.

I’d manually remove them with tweezer and try a coral/hydrogen peroxide dip just be careful of dipping zoas because of the possibility of palytoxin.

 

[fishguy242]

hi, depending on tank size ,look into wrasse

 

[Clarkjw2002]

First you need to confirm whether they are feather dusters or vermetid snails. From your description of irritating your zoas I would guess vermetids.

If that is the case you really are SOL and need to remove manually. I seem to have had luck once with a yellow Coris wrasse in one tank but was never ablate repeat in future tanks. Bumble bee snails never worked for me and my current melanurus wrasse doesn't seem to care for them. After 2 or 3 yrs they sort of fade to the background and your tank learns to live around them--at least my current set up has.

I'm still trying to prevent them all together in my retirement build.

If really feather dusters a wrasse will probably harass/eat enough to provide relief.

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

bumble snails are normally suggested for vermetid worms, not feather dusters.

Can you post a pic of the pests?

 

[cat910064]

First you need to confirm whether they are feather dusters or vermetid snails. From your description of irritating your zoas I would guess vermetids.

If that is the case you really are SOL and need to remove manually. I seem to have had luck once with a yellow Coris wrasse in one tank but was never ablate repeat in future tanks. Bumble bee snails never worked for me and my current melanurus wrasse doesn't seem to care for them. After 2 or 3 yrs they sort of fade to the background and your tank learns to live around them--at least my current set up has.

I'm still trying to prevent them all together in my retirement build.

If really feather dusters a wrasse will probably harass/eat enough to provide relief.

The fans are really obvious and big so I would say turn worm or feather duster.

 

[cat910064]

bumble snails are normally suggested for vermetid worms, not feather dusters.

Can you post a pic of the pests?

Yes, this is the one I’ve seen all over my LR and some colonies on the top of my softie