Saltwater Feather Dusters

When feeding the hawaiian feather duster turn off protein skimmers for about one hour to make sure targeted food stays put. 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. Likewise intermittent stirring of the sandbed helps to suspend settled detritus back up into the water column where the worms can access it.

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Hawaiian feather dusters secrete mucous that bits of substrate adhere to and that produces a cocoon like structure described as being similar in look and feel to heavy paper or leather.

Saltwater feather dusters. The worm lives inside this protective tube. It seems to me they do have the red lines on the feathers indicating that. 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.

So it might not be out much. 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. Theyre so tiny its hard to get a good look or a good pic.

The polychaetes literally many hairs have segmented bodies and each segment bears two or more appendages called parapodia. Compatibility some fish will try to pick on the duster. Size usually about 2 feather and the tube is about 5 6.

Feather dusters are commonly found living in the nooks and crannies of live rock and coral reefs. Each feather duster consists of the crown of feathery appendages called radioles the segmented body of the worm itself and the tube it resides in. The tube is made of different materials depending on the species of duster worm the soft tubes you see are made of a polysaccharide matrix while the worms with the hard tubes are made of a calcareous material.

Haven t added anything in this tank in over 2 months. I just want to be sure though. They then have a feathery crown that peeks out filtering the water column for food using its specialized tentacles.

They re definitely coming from the white tubes on the rock. Feather duster worms are members of the phylum annelida the segmented worms which includes the common earthworm. To me they look like it but just confirming.

Ok so i have flipped threw a bunch of the other threads and i am pretty sure these are orange feather dusters of some sort. Reef safe reef safe. The feather dusters belong to the class polychaeta one of the four classes of annelids.

Their body isn t unlike that of an earth worm. How common to this area these are one of the few things we import from the dr. 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.

Hey everyone do you think these are feather dusters.