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Palting
02/24/2013, 01:05 PM
Over the years, I've had things pop up in my tank that I never bought and never paid for. The benefit of having started a tank with a few pieces of live rock among the mostly dry rock aquascape. Some hitchhikers can be pests, but fortunately for the tank most have been pretty cool! I was hoping we could all share in each others good fortune with pics!

Wanted a BTA, but bought this rock whole because the BTA had roosted in it at the LFS, and I didn't want him being rooted of the rock. Rock was bare other than for the anemone. Paid for the rock as well as the anemone, and was well worth it. Wonderful things have popped out of that rock over the years;

Emerald green Ricordea Yuma:
http://i851.photobucket.com/albums/ab71/Kalawing/Snapbucket/B7265D29_zps87af8c5e.jpg

Blood red mushroom, and green zoas:
http://i851.photobucket.com/albums/ab71/Kalawing/Snapbucket/9BD46021_zpse363defc.jpg

Some ugly green mushrooms. Ehh, can have it all gorgeous, right? :)
http://i851.photobucket.com/albums/ab71/Kalawing/Snapbucket/6F978683_zps33f3cfb0.jpg

Eagle eye zoas:
http://i851.photobucket.com/albums/ab71/Kalawing/Snapbucket/C5CEACD7_zpsa9bc7e7d.jpg

GSP:
http://i851.photobucket.com/albums/ab71/Kalawing/Snapbucket/208F1D60_zps823a1064.jpg

Obviously there are also pests, like all kinds of small feather dusters as well as the ubiquitous vermatid snails that seem t pop out of nowhere. But there are also big pleasant surprises. Here is a rock anemone that popped out of the substrate, the only one in my tank, seems to just spontaneously got there:
http://i851.photobucket.com/albums/ab71/Kalawing/Snapbucket/9C5D1E0D_zps61c92428.jpg

Paul B
02/24/2013, 01:11 PM
Cute little red crab

http://i258.photobucket.com/albums/hh270/urchsearch/IMG_0651.jpg

MARINECRITTERS
02/24/2013, 01:37 PM
I have a lot of these guys ( marine nematode worm )
http://s1078.beta.photobucket.com/user/MARINECRITTERS/media/Vid00004_zpsd7812e1e.mp4.html

Handil
02/24/2013, 01:40 PM
So I really wish I could post a picture, but the story is funny. My tank has been set up for about 6 years. It's a 38 gal with 40-45 lbs LR. Now I haven't put any new big chunks of rock in since it was established, but about 6 months ago (after 5 years) I was looking in the tank at night. I saw a really strange crab, that I had never seen before. I now know its a shamefaced crab. I've only seen it the one time ever and I have no idea what happened to it. I took pics with my old phone, so if I can find them, I'll post one. It was peach colored and about the size of an emerald crab. As big as it is, I'm surprised I hadn't seen it before or since.

biggles
02/25/2013, 12:43 AM
This is my resident frag plug cleaner, he's extremely ugly and sluggy looking but he recently appeared out of nowhere and has taken a liking to the frag plugs - keeps them spotless :) No idea what he is, did i mention he's extremely ugly.........

http://i1283.photobucket.com/albums/a553/BigglesRC/IMG_0874_zpsd604f139.jpg

Boboli
02/25/2013, 12:50 AM
http://i864.photobucket.com/albums/ab207/mick68dad/50aa993c.jpg

PAnanoguy
02/25/2013, 09:06 AM
Lmao ^^^

PAnanoguy
02/25/2013, 09:06 AM
Biggles, hes a stomatella snail.

biggles
02/26/2013, 01:51 PM
Thanks PAnanoguy for the ID :)

ace_92101
02/26/2013, 04:05 PM
This is my resident frag plug cleaner, he's extremely ugly and sluggy looking but he recently appeared out of nowhere and has taken a liking to the frag plugs - keeps them spotless :) No idea what he is, did i mention he's extremely ugly.........

http://i1283.photobucket.com/albums/a553/BigglesRC/IMG_0874_zpsd604f139.jpg

I take it he was your live rock, no? Where did the purchase originate?

biggles
02/26/2013, 05:35 PM
He was either on my LR or on one of the corals i bought, i added some SPS about 10 days ago and he appeared within a few days of that so i'm guessing he hitchhiked on a colony.

Paul B
03/11/2013, 10:02 AM
Carnivorous snails. Hundreds of them

http://i258.photobucket.com/albums/hh270/urchsearch/2013-03-04100456_zpsc578b06b.jpg

http://i258.photobucket.com/albums/hh270/urchsearch/2013-03-07082155_zps3916e344.jpg