Feather Duster Fish
Feather dusters are commonly found living in the nooks and crannies of live rock and coral reefs.
Feather duster fish. Reef safe reef safe. They need to be in an aquarium that has a very evident green tint when viewed from a couple of feet away. The feather duster sabellastarte giganteus also known as the fan worm is a marine segmented worm that attaches its calcium carbonate tube to a rocky or sandy substrate by its base.
In feather duster worms the hair like chaetae are much reduced. I m assuming the tank has been up a while and that you ve had the feather duster a while. They then have a feathery crown that peeks out filtering the water column for food using its specialized tentacles.
I lost one once but as tiny explained they give a good hint when they are dying. The feather duster worms belong to several families and subfamilies of polychaeta. Inverts are more sensitve to certain conditions than fish.
These fan worms don t have a face and eyes but they are able to detect changes in the light and use that light sensitivity to protect them from predators. How common to this area these are one of the few things we import from the dr. They most often live in green or turbid water with a lot of phytoplankton floating in it.
Those with a soft tube consisting of a polysaccharide matrix of mucus detritus are generally from the family sabellidae with a single genus being capable of creating a calcareous tube. Size usually about 2 feather and the tube is about 5 6. Ya i always check my water if anything doesn t look right.
It is typically made from a wooden dowel handle onto which ostrich feathers are wound with a wire. The feather duster is actually a sedentary worm that forms its casing and extends a crown of tentacles perfect for grasping small particles and free floating debris. The feathery crown that gives the feather duster worm its name is a specialized part of its body that is used to trap plankton and move them to its mouth.
Fanworms and feather dusters are among some of the most beautiful marine aquarium inhabitants. Some have a retractable casing instead of a dowel handle. The hard tube feather dusters belong to the family serpulidae.
Those with soft tubes consisting of a polysaccharide matrix and trapped detritus are in the family sabellidae which has only one genus with an exceptional calcareous tube. A feather duster is an implement used for cleaning. Compatibility some fish will try to pick on the duster.
The feather duster worms belong to several families of polychaeta. These large feather dusters are not generally animals from clear water areas. However these bizarre creatures are frequently misunderstood and perhaps ironically increasingly high tech developments in the hobby have made many aquaria unsuitable for them.
So it might not be out much.
