Brown Feather Dusters

[Kristy]

The brown feather dusters vines are probably not going to hurt anything, and we have heard they are good filter feaders, helping somewhat to keep nitrates in check. We used to have a bunch in our tank. Our's sprouted during a period of really high nutrients (heavy feeding while trying to keep a flowerpot alive) and have mostly died off now due to less nutrients in the tank. JMO, they are probably fine, but if you think they are ugly, then it is nice of you to give them to someone else who wants them.

Do they actually have soft tubes with the small feather dusters that come out or are they just the little hard tubes, with maybe a single strand coming out? Those are hydroids, and the strand can sting other corals, which is not good. Hope that helps.

Andrew vs Wild, the small starfish is probably an asterina star, which some people have an issue with them reaching plague proportions in thier tanks. We have some in both the small and large tank and have not really had a problem with them (yet )

-Mike (& Kristy)