Feather Duster Worms! Woohoo!

[3fsh]

I just looked into my tank the other day and noticed a small group (3, I think) of tiny feather duster worms. About as big as the erasor on the end of a pencil. (1/4 inch maybe?) After inspecting the rest of the tank closely, I realized that there are quite a few of them on each rock. I looked them up on the web and I am pretty sure they are Bispira brunnea. What should I feed them? (I think they've been eating the frozen brine shrimp that the two triggers miss.) I don't want them to die on me because they are absolutely gorgeous!Any suggestions? BTW- They are white with brown "stripes". I will try to post a picture later!

 

[Great Lakes]

Just keep doing what you have been doing.

Your care created them, it should sustain them.

GL

 

[Landlocked]

I also am fortunate enough to have a colony of feather dusters in my tank. I now have about 75 of them in 4 cubic inches . . . cramped, but they love it! It looks awesome!

I have never fed them, and they don't need to be fed most of the time. If you feed your fish, all the little bits of food the fish don't get will rush around the tank until something (namely the feather dusters) eats them. They really don't need food, unless you're not putting any other food in the tank.

Hope this helps!

 

[Dragonscales]

They are filter feeders so will eat anything small enough which floats into them. If you have corals and feed them then the dusters will eat that as well, plus anything else you feed your other fish which they are already doing.

Personally I wouldn't stress too hard, from the sounds of it, what you are doing right now is fine, if they start looking a little under the weather then I'd maybe think about target feeding, but no need right now.

 

[3fsh]

They seem to be doing fine right now... I barely ever see them, though! Whenever I look in at them, the triggers swim right in front of them, begging for food, and they hide in their little tubes! My triggers are such pigs!

 

[jams.alaskan]

I have a friend in Seward, Alaska that keeps a tank with barnicals (sp) and feather dusters. She feeds then newly hatched brine shrimp and they are quite good at capture!

ALASKA

 

[7chanaa]

i have them. i ffed them on red plankton (frozen food)

 

[ste2k3]

there should be enough natural food in there but you could add live phyto-plankton if you can get hold of it but don't worry too much about feeding them. like GL said, if there doing fine and growing, your doing fine as you are.

ste