I lost my head!!!!!!!!!!!!

[saltyj]

My feather duster that I have had for years, dropped his "head" off. Will he grow a new one or is it a gonner?

 

[waterfaller1]

He should grow a new one in a couple weeks. Any peppermint shrimp or a butterfly in the tank?

 

[saltyj]

peppermint, CBS and a cleaner shrimp. Why do you ask?

 

[waterfaller1]

Peppermint shrimp have a bad habit of messing with & eating feather dusters. He may be doing it at night, causing it stress. How are your water parameters? Are you specifically feeding the feather duster live phytoplankton?

 

[saltyj]

no I am not specifically feeding him, and I never have. I did treat a large amount of aptasia that was surrounding him with Kalkwasser a while back.

 

[waterfaller1]

He needs to eat...he could be declining because you are'nt feeding him. I am really liking the new Phycopure, you may want to try it.

 

[cschweitzer]

No Copper banded butterflies, right? They eat them all up. I've never fed mine either, it just collects what it may. I slightly overfeed so my janitors and filter feeders stay healthy.

 

[Aquaman]

lost my head when I proposed marriage! or so my family told me

 

[saltyj]

Carol, I have had bim a long time and I have never fed him and he has done very well.

Craig, No copperband, although I would give up the feather duster for one.

Aquaman, I agree marriage is a difficult task, but well worth it.

 

[Aquaman]

Saltyj, LOL I got divorced 5 years later, the family said I finally found my sense's