Feather Duster popped off

[Phil]

Greetings, I have a new 30 gal. tank. It is about 10 weeks old and is doing real well. six small fish, 2 snails, 6 small hermit crabs, hammer coral, yellow (tubular with flower top) coral. You can tell that I am a "Newby".
The top popped off the feather duster. I found it in the intake. Is this OK?, good?, Bad? Everything else is doing real good.

[patsfan1130]

Greetings, I have a new 30 gal. tank. It is about 10 weeks old and is doing real well. six small fish, 2 snails, 6 small hermit crabs, hammer coral, yellow (tubular with flower top) coral. You can tell that I am a "Newby".
The top popped off the feather duster. I found it in the intake. Is this OK?, good?, Bad? Everything else is doing real good.

Feather dusters will typically lose their fans when stressed. They do have the ability to regrow them however. They are somewhat difficult to keep alive long term as feeding it is the problem. I have never had great success with them over the years and typically stay away from them as I hate to have livestock by my own doing. My 10'' Regal Tang hates them. she will back up to them and smack em with her "razor". It an amazing site. Enough of my babble..Again, It is common for them to lose their fans but usually means something is pissing it off.

Mark