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
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