911 ....my feather duster was lunch !!

[Lab_boy]

I have 3 beautiful feather duster's well today my long black spine sea urchin decided he wanted a expensive lunch lol ...he was caught munching away on one if my dusters ! The duster did not expell his fan during the attack. Now my poor duster has slimy mucus stuff every where! Will it shed the old fan and grow a new one ? Or will it die ? or do I need to do some thing ? I am Totaly gonna trade the urchin back at my LFS!!

 

[Pwny]

urchins eat feather dusters, it depends how much damage was done

 

[jack 85]

i had one of those and my bicolor blennie decided to start eating the tube then couple of days later seen the crown on substrate and havent seen it since. i cant find it anywhere but if do will let you know

 

[Lab_boy]

The tube was not disturbed just half of the duster part ...whats weird is most dusters when attacked will shoot off their fan immediately...well of course mine didn't lol.

 

[Lab_boy]

The duster still responds to touch..I don't see how it will eat now with no fan :(

 

[jack 85]

would you believe it just looked at my tank and whats coming out a brand new crown :)

 

[Lab_boy]

Wow ...I can only hope mine gets a new crown :)

 

[Pwny]

they drop there crown when there stressed if the tube wasent desturbed its prolly fine just leave it in the tank it can take like 3 weeks or so to grow back

 

[Bifferwine]

+1 Pwny, I'd expect it to grow back if the urchin is no longer there to bother it.

 

[AmberSunrise]

Yep here is what happened to me. My duster is still living in his safe rock

https://www.livingreefs.com/pincushion-urchin-eating-feather-duster-t32243.html

 

[Lab_boy]

Up date on my duster lol he did shed the old crown and is in the process of growing a new one ...what's weird is the duster comes out now and really looks like the worm off the movie tremors lol

 

[AmberSunrise]

Up date on my duster lol he did shed the old crown and is in the process of growing a new one ...what's weird is the duster comes out now and really looks like the worm off the movie tremors lol

OMG! Gross I alway wondered what the worm looked like since its so pretty with the fan.