what eats little feather dusters?

sp1187 · Nov 8, 2020

besides a copperband butterfy, which I would buy if I could find a healthy one, what eats those little white feather dusters?

TriggerFinger · Nov 8, 2020

I’ve seen a couple people say their melanarus wrasse has eaten them. I don’t know if that’s a widespread trait or was just that particular fish.

Jseimo · Nov 8, 2020

Corris wrasses will also eat them

gaki · Nov 8, 2020

Wait!! Don’t buy something to eat them just yet. I don’t know what your setup is, but I used to have a lot of those feather duster things. They were really annoying at first, and they were all over the display tank, but eventually, they died back. Now, they live in the back filtration portion of my tank and I am fairly certain that they are SUPER beneficial to water quality and clarity. If they aren’t too big, keep them. Take “biological filtration” to the next level . If not, then yeah... melanuris and coris wrasses (I’m pretty sure) do the trick

sp1187 · Nov 8, 2020

gaki said:
Wait!! Don’t buy something to eat them just yet. I don’t know what your setup is, but I used to have a lot of those feather duster things. They were really annoying at first, and they were all over the display tank, but eventually, they died back. Now, they live in the back filtration portion of my tank and I am fairly certain that they are SUPER beneficial to water quality and clarity. If they aren’t too big, keep them. Take “biological filtration” to the next level . If not, then yeah... melanuris and coris wrasses (I’m pretty sure) do the trick

I had thousands in the DT (150 Tall). I had a copperband that ate each and everyone of them. sadly the copperband suffered a tragic accident and died. my sump is filled with them and thats fine, but I'm seeing them attaching directly to zoas in the DT and the zoas aren't opening like they used to.

fishguy242 · Nov 8, 2020

melanarus,coris wrasse is going to move large things around,the one i had was a nightmare

45ZoaGarden · Nov 8, 2020

My yellow coris eats them. Emerald crabs will rip them up. A Pygmy angel will probably go for them as well

pcon · Nov 8, 2020

Prognathodes and roaops butterflies should eat them. They took out mine and my aiptasia under a month.

Baldguy · Nov 9, 2020

I had peppermint shrimp that cleared my tank.

hds4216 · Nov 9, 2020

Are we talking about spirorbid worms?

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