Urgent! Just received duster help.

[TekCat]

HEEELLLP!!!!

I just received featherduster (don't know exact species), and it is stressed, it crawled totally out of its tube, lying next to it. I am about to acclimate it. Do I try putting it bach into its tube, leave it alone, or anything else I might need to do in order to save it?

Thanks!

 

[TekCat]

Too late I called LiveAquaria and they told me that it is dead. RIP pink dwarf duster.

 

[SuperNerd]

Sorry for the loss. Are they going to send you another one?

 

[bluenassarius]

put it back in the tube.. i had a feather duster do that. i put it in low flow and fed it phyto. it made a nice recovery

 

[TekCat]

Oh, well, LA will refund me the cost. And the remains of duster went down the drain.... better luck next time

 

[cokemanmark]

i have thousands of dusters in mu tank but they are all small never had one crawl out befor

 

[TekCat]

Yes, I have also small ones and never actually paid any attention on how they are doing. I see them all the time openned so, I assume that they are doing good. But big ones I suppose more fragile.

 

[SuperNerd]

Yes...the big ones are more difficult to take care of. They need a heck of a lot of the right kind of phytoplankton that most reef tanks (even large ones) can't provide.

 

[TekCat]

Woud DT-pytho work?

 

[SuperNerd]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8455644#post8455644 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by TekCat
Woud DT-pytho work?

Yes but they need a lot.