Flower vs Weed

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So I've got these small feather duster worms that proliferate and I'm beginning to wonder if they were a mistake
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They came in on a tonga live rock with a bunch of mushrooms and helped the tank look 'more natural'.

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Now I'm finding egg streams every morning and picking them out of corals...
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Not sure I have any options other than manual 'thinning'...

Some folks like dandelions, do you?
 

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The feather dusters are great and hurt nothing, but the only way you can have such an explosion of them is if you're grossly over feeding the tank.

I was feeding soo much in my tank, at one point the entire sandbed of a 100 gal was solid tube worms.
But I didn't mind Bc They were eating all the leftover food in the tank.
I've since cut way back and the population of the worms has done the same
 
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Sorry the pics were linked...
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Interesting point about the feeding. Being filter feeders, I bet their population is related to the reef roids I've been use weekly!
 

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Oh yeah lol
Reef roids can also be called feather duster roids too lol
And yeah that's a lot of them wow.
 
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So, here is the best reference on them I've found.

Sounds like I need to refine my feeding approach, increase/improve my skimmer/skimming and manually remove the ones I don't like from a vanity stand point.
 

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That's a good plan. Take out the ones crowding your corals and revise your feeding so they don't keep multiplying
 

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