Feather Duster_headless

[daddy01]

Thanks for all the feedabck I hope it survives. It was doing well but I had a Phospahte problem and have been doing water changes every second day to get phosphate lowered. I am almost there and his crown was off so I hope it was just the water changes.
Jim

[bubblepuffer]

Once out of a blue moon sometime if I do have problem with my water for some reason even I filtered all the water.. maybe my Puffer Poo or something causing water issue. .. I mostly will stuff a bag of Nitrate Sponge or Phosphate Sponge to bring everything under control

[MikeP]

I would bet that it will grow a new crown. The first feather duster I got did the same thing about a week after I put it in the tank (I have 5 now all doing great ). I left it alone and about 3 or 4 weeks later he was back to normal. Seahorse Fanatic posted that the new crown will be smaller but that is not the case with mine, actually I think it ended up being a bit bigger. Might have to do with the type of feather duster it is though. This one's crown is mostly brown with a bit of yellow.

HTH

[Stoll]

Until I pulled my tank down recently, I had 2 large feather dusters in my tank. One of them was perpetually happy, never did anything out of the ordinary, but the other was a different story. On one occasion I noticed that it threw it's crown, and the next day it had crawled out of it's tube completely and was curled up under a piece of rock about 6" from it's tube. I figured "what can I do?" so I left it to do what it would... About a week later I looked in the tank and voila, it had crawled back into it's tube and had regrown about a cm of crown and was out and feeding. I believe it tossed it's crown 2 or 3 more times in the time that I had it and always within a week it had regrown enough to feed with.

Very interesting critters!