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Gripenfelter 02-03-2012 08:32 PM

What fish will eat those tiny feather dusters?
 
My tank is being over taken by them.

What will eat the tiny white feather dusters?

6 line wrasse?

Peppermint shrimp?

Arrow Crabs?

Starry 02-03-2012 08:44 PM

Copper Band butterfly.

Reef Pilot 02-03-2012 08:49 PM

I have Pearlscale Butterfly fish that cleaned out my tank of aiptasia, and am sure they would eat feather dusters too.

Gripenfelter 02-03-2012 09:19 PM

I have a reef tank with lots of coral...so no butterflies.

ScubaSteve 02-03-2012 09:21 PM

I had a longnose butterfly that destroyed my worm population in about a day but never touched any of my corals. Fogiceps are reef safe for the most part.

janalta 02-03-2012 11:36 PM

My Yellow Tang lunched on the few I had

jagermaier 02-03-2012 11:55 PM

My flame angel used to eat them when I first put him in but he doesn't seem to anymore. However I like to have them in my tank as they are a good natural filter for the water.

sumpfinfishe 02-04-2012 01:59 AM

Quote:

I have a reef tank with lots of coral...so no butterflies.
sorry but bwhahaha that was funny:lol:

I too have a yellow tang that took care of any I had on my live rock:biggrin:

Reef Pilot 02-04-2012 03:42 AM

Yellow tang that eats feather dusters??...

The Grizz 02-04-2012 05:49 AM

Bought a CBB from a fellow reefer and it took care of my major infestation of those little buggers as well as any apitasia.:biggrin:

badAZZlars 02-04-2012 07:46 AM

Copper band butterfly. Mine didn't bother the corals at all but definitely took care of the feather dusters. Tough to keep alive though unless you feed frozen food daily.

reefgirl189 02-04-2012 02:37 PM

IF feather dusters were a problem then I might as well nuke my whole tank. I'm completely overrun with them. One of the LRs is white in appearance it's so full of them.

If anyone needs some food for a finicky CBB just let me know.

Proteus 02-04-2012 03:30 PM

+1 on Cbb taken care of feather dusters. Never touched a piece of coral

Lampshade 02-04-2012 04:21 PM

My coral beauty cleaned out my tank of those and clove polyps. He died last week in my power outage and they are already getting plague like again.

Gripenfelter 02-05-2012 01:49 AM

I have a coral beauty and yellow tang. They don't touch them. They are growing on my corals so I want to get rid of them.

whatcaneyedo 02-05-2012 02:48 AM

From April 2011:
Is there a fish that eats feather dusters?
http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/sho...eather+dusters

daniella3d 02-06-2012 02:06 AM

Well if they are returning after only one week and are already a plague, I guess your coral beauty did not really cleaned them out at all...he probably just bothered them so they would retract temporary.

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Originally Posted by Lampshade (Post 678688)
My coral beauty cleaned out my tank of those and clove polyps. He died last week in my power outage and they are already getting plague like again.


rastaangel 02-06-2012 05:30 PM

My emperor angel loves all feather dusters! I buy them as treats for him LOL


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