Featherduster is excreting a "cobweb"

[Cateye]

I have a week old featherduster and today it started leaking a "cobweb" material. It also seems to have left its tube. The web is coming from the tube, not the feather. What's going on and what can or should I do?

 

[LeslieH]

It would really help if you could post an image.

 

[charlesr1958]

It may just have died and what you are seeing is it rotting away (leaking).

 

[capncapo]

Sounds like your "feather duster" might be a vermetid snail.

 

[Cateye]

I can't send an image, sorry. However, it has stopped excreting the "cobweb" and the feather is out of the tube but looks healthy.

 

[ReefNeck]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6501723#post6501723 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Cateye
I can't send an image, sorry. However, it has stopped excreting the "cobweb" and the feather is out of the tube but looks healthy.

You keep referring to the "Feather" being out of the tube.

From what I am getting from that it sounds like the Worm has tossed his crown. What you saw may be residue from the worm building a new crown which will take some time.

Feather Dusters often throw their Crown (Feathers) when stressed and if the stress level goes down they will make a new one.

 

[fillibar]

Cateye, does it look somewhat like a nearly clear spherical "blob" around the opening (but not blocking the crown) with small white dots in it? I have seen the same thing around my featherdusters, and now I have many little ones spreading around the tank.