Clownfish destroying feather duster!?

[fishguy_8]

I come home and my dad tells me he thinks my feather duster is getting beaten by my male cin. clown so i sit there and watch for 5min and sure enough he goes and starts eating the tube....the feathers themselves have not been out for days i guess *i've been at college* so i said well its close to its host so lets move it to the other side of the tank.....i'll be damned if he still didnt hunt it down and start eating at it again....is this bizarre to anyone because i've never had a problem nor heard of anything like this. or am i just missing out on the great taste of a feather duster.....so today my dad and i made the executive decission it was time for them to go they were 2 of my 3 only members of my original tank so i didnt want to part with them but i couldnt take the chance that maybe tomorrow they'd be feeding on my sun coral or my sps or my gigantic hammer.....so it was a somber day in my reef. so to make myself feel better we picked up a new cuke and what i believe is some kind of finger leather i've seen it before and no its needs so it wasnt an impulse buy but i just dont know what exactly it is at the moment....but im fairly certain its a finger leather. i'm just about fully stocked so that meens time to start lobbying for a bigger tank ;) i'm also trying to get a digi cam for xmas so i can share my tank with you fine folks.
Jon

[scubadude]

hey Jon! clowns can be weird sometimes....you lost me though...did you get rid of the clown or the duster? Yeah u definately need a digi cam to show us yer tank dude!

[Bughead]

Chances are, the feather duster worm is not even inside its tube. It's common for them to lose their head when all is not well, but they will also escape the whole tube. I had one do that. Imagine my surprise to see the worm sitting (do worms sit?) beside its tube. It wiggled itself around behind the rock. I'd like to say it grew a new tube and is living nicely, but I never saw the worm again, so I think it didn't make it.

[fishguy_8]

no the tube is still with me but the clowns are not...i'm going to get some percula's instead. the worm is doing well now though he was still in it because when it would start to poke its feathers out of the tube, the male would just dart right over and thrash it....so they're gone. i did some rearranging in my tank as well. i used to have a straight line of lr thru the middle of the tank with 2 caves but i switched it to an S-shape giving me more substrate room. i had to do this because my toadstool has gotten so tall that it was almost out of the water! on another note, my sps that i have is looking better, it still has a brown color but its tips are turning green so im pretty happy about that. i am now starting to dose a little iodine in order to help the corals regenerate cells. i know some people dont do this but i thought it couldnt hurt and it was only like 7 bucks so i said why not. here is a updated list of what i have in my tank......
the sps, a basketball sized hammer, 2 softball sized frogspawns, green tipped hairy shrooms, hairy shrooms, bubble coral, plate coral, toadstool, yellow polyps, finger leather, sun coral, unidentified polyps, another unidentified polyp, feather duster, tube anemone, trumpet coral, 2 hitch-hiker leathers.......
lighting is 110w vho and a 20w no actinic lamp .....i'm going to get another one of these 110w'ers and make it strictly for actinic lighting....
Jon