Xenia vs Feather Duster

[mling]

One of my Xenia has crawled up it's rock and on to a Feather Duster's tube, as the pic shows.

Any suggestions as to what I should do ?
It has taken me awhile to post this; so while this pic was taken today, it has stayed like this for over a week.

Should I just leave it alone and assume that the duster comes out often enough to stop the Xenia from covering up it's tube's opening ?
With moon light, this duster stays out almost all the time, even at night.

 

[noahm]

The duster should be fine. It will just extend its tube if it needs to. Worst case scenario, if you have to dismantle the two, put the worm in a safe sandy spot until it reconstructs it tube maybe in a tub of sand in your fuge. Shouldn't have to worry though.

 

[snorvich]

it should be no problem. But a noahm says, it can reconstruct if it needs to.

 

[darkdruid]

The featherduster can and will pull down in the tube past the xenia if you scare it. Take a pair of sharp sissors and simply cut the tube off right next to the xenia. The featherduster will come back out and be just fine and you have something you can use to glue the xenia to a rock.

 

[fasteddie99]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15369427#post15369427 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by darkdruid
The featherduster can and will pull down in the tube past the xenia if you scare it. Take a pair of sharp sissors and simply cut the tube off right next to the xenia. The featherduster will come back out and be just fine and you have something you can use to glue the xenia to a rock.

+1
I've cut the tubes down a few times just to make the fit somewhere or to get them to stand a certain way. They will secrete new parchment where they need to in just a couple days.

Like darkdruid said, now you have something to glue your xenia with.