Shortly after getting the crabs, we noticed something
odd on the shells. It was a strange
white wormy formation. We kept it under
close observation and finally the worm grew large enough to reveal it was in fact
three feather dusters.
Shortly after that we found another one on a rock and
yesterday (December 6th) we have found yet another duster. I am super excited. They are supposedly good for the tank and
filtering and will reproduce quickly. I
think they are really fun to watch. You might too so you should watch. He put himself in hard spot to video tape, but you can see him coming in and out of his tube to feed.
We’ve been dosing the tank with Elemental from Brightwell
Aquatics to help with the growth of coralline algae. We have spots all over the rocks, it looks like
cotton candy exploded on them. Elemental
is essentially concentrated calcium and feather dusters build their casings out
of calcium. Since we started regularly
dosing, one of the feather dusters has doubled in size. Unfortunately, two riding on the hermit crab
I believe have died due to hermit crabby activities. I am hoping more pop up.
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