If your real carefull you can sort of palpitate or squeeze the tube up
and down its lengths and if that worm is stillin the tube and with the
world, it willsort of jump, even if it doe snot have a crown. If yu
can squeeze the tube slightly up and down its length without feeling
anything inside its probably safe to assume he/she / it is history
and is either out making a new tube where its more happy or gone to
that tube worm territory in the sky.....Another lcue is if the tube is
crimped closed on the end sort of like it hsut its door and is out
too lunch, but then again its not as fool proof as squeezing the tube
somewhat. Just don;t mash it or if it is alive it will be injured, but
they will reaidly move if they start to feel pressure and its
unmistakeable as to it moving and being alive.

On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 17:12:41 GMT, George Patterson
wrote:

How do you tell if a feather duster is still in the world of the living? One of
mine hasn't shown a cluster of "feathers" for several days now and may have shed
them. I moved him out of a cave in the rocks onto the sand, and he apparently
didn't like it.

There are no visible changes to his body over the last few days; he hasn't begun
to decompose or anything. Any idea how long it takes one to regrow a feather
cluster?

George Patterson
Forgive your enemies. But always remember who they are.



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