uh oh...

[majestikmoose]

sooo, i found my first hitch hiker in my live rock this afternoon.

i apparently have about 6 or 7 feather dusters. They are TINY. there is one large on(which is still small at less than half an inch across). the others are just barely visible, they are all sort of clustered together.

they are white and brown banded, and live on a hunk of rock. did i mention tiny?lol.

do i have to do anything special with these guys? i have tons of frozen cyclops(i feed these to my betta fry mostly), can they eat that-and what else would i feed it(i assume i need to feed them at least a few times a week).

is lighting important for them? i don't have anything that needs light in the tank, i had a clamp lamp with just an old low wattage reptile bulb in it, but i didn't like the light(too yellow for taking pics), so this afternoon, i put "plant grow" bulbs over it(for like, house plants-its a blue-er light) to see how the tank looked for pics, and a few minutes after that is the first time i noticed them...

 

[Ian]

make sure they're not hydroids...

 

[majestikmoose]

looks almost exactly like this guy(the photo is a bit fizzy...)
http://www.genegs.com/files/Tank_9_9_07/Dwarf_Feather_Duster__White_with_brown___Bispira_sp._.JPG
or like this
http://www.meades.org/fish/fish_2005/feather_duster.jpg
i can't see the tubes, like i said, they are in the rock.
they suck themselves back in when a fish swims by, or if i walk up to the tank, buy once im still, they come back out pretty quickly.

 

[Harry_Y]

I have then all over my tank, they should be fine.

They are filter feeders, the more particles
in your water the more they have to eat.

I have all kinds of things that have hitched in,
Zoas, Feather dusters, Clams, Cucumbers, etc.

 

[majestikmoose]

i knew they weren't bad-but with my ghetto lighting, and it beign a newer tank, i didn't know if i should try to find them a new home, or just see where this goes.