Featherduster population boom

[BigJay]

I've been dosing live phyto lately, my pygmy angels enjoy eating all of the resulting sponges and copepods in the tank. They've been doing alot of grazing/hunting in the rocks lately, and I see plenty of little pods on the glass.

I pulled two big handfuls of caulerpa out of my sump last night, and I have hundreds and hundreds of those little featherduster worms in there. They intertwine themselves in the cheato and caulerpa, and I imagine they eat whatever phytoplankton, uneaten food, and fish poop that makes it into the fuge.

Is there any harm in having so many of these?

 

[Servo]

they are great biologic filter feeders. Some think they can actually help keep your nitrates and phosphates down as a nutrient exporter (al la xenia refugium concept).


Great sign of a healthy tank

 

[Ashlar]

Yup, you're doing a good job, well done!

 

[BigJay]

@Servo wrote:

Thanks!

I admit that I felt kind of bad "exporting" so many of them last night though.

 

[Wes]

you could have always donated them to others

8)