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[Redwolf91]

Your favorite live rock hitchhiker that you have gotten. I found recently I got a bicolor blenny that was hiding in some rock attached to a coral. I'll get a better picture, he is sticking his head out here lol...

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[mrvincent]

Wow, great hitchhicker ! Free blenny, congratulations !

My best hitchhiker is a black little brittle star. Found it in a zoa frag.

[BigRedsReefs10]

My best hh was a porcelain crab

I also got a mantis once, wish I would of kept it, but I didn't have the fondness for them that I now do back then

[Redwolf91]

Porcelain crabs are awesome.. Can't have enough brittle stars lol. I found a lot of hhs this tank. There are three pencil point urchins, a purple and orange pistol shrimp, some baby stars, and of course blenny. There was a mantis, but he went to a friends doing a species tank

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[Animal-Chin]

A purple and a green montipora. I bought an acro on a rock and it must have had these before but were snapped off or something. I couldn't even see the little bits left behind but all of a sudden 2 different sps were growing off the back. I've now fragged the purple twice and the green 4 times and they keep coming back. Best freebee ever...

[ezy33]

A couple years ago I bought a blue sponge on a softball size rock. Inside I could see some movement but not enough to make a ID. After a week I Spotted a arm of a small serpent star so I kept trying to get a good look at it because I was seeing something else in there. Another 3 weeks go by then I finally spot a claw in there from a red banded snapping shrimp. Apparently they had a symbiotic relationship. At the time I had a red coris wrasse that is reef safe with caution. Reef safe with caution means it's going to eat something. Also had a rock boring clam, may still have it!

[bribo12]

I got some tiny neon blue sponges that were pretty sweet. Plus a million feather dusters

[herp_mommy]

An entire live fish is a great hitchhiker! I've had sea stars, pistol shrimp, corals, macro algae, worms, etc, but these are my favorite two:

[Redwolf91]

Beautiful urchin, was it that size when you discovered it?

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[herp_mommy]

Originally Posted by Redwolf91

Beautiful urchin, was it that size when you discovered it?

goodness no! His body is about the size of a golf ball now, about 4" with spines. I found him when he was about the size of a pencil eraser. I actually found THREE- but all the coraline in my 75 couldn't support that many, so I sold the other two to the LFS

[Zactheninja]

Brittle stars!
The blenny is a lucky find, I had to pay for my bicolor...worth it still lol...

[Redwolf91]

They sure can decimate Coraline, probably a very good call. Totally off topic, but you are perhaps a Reptile lover?

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[herp_mommy]

Originally Posted by Redwolf91

They sure can decimate Coraline, probably a very good call. Totally off topic, but you are perhaps a Reptile lover?

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Yeah. He's a neat dude and keeps a nice check on the coraline. I think the tank would be covered without him.
And yes- I've got a female water dragon due to lay this month and I'm excited!! I don't want to take the thread off topic but pm me if you want to talk about reptiles more! Lol

[Redwolf91]

We really are thrilled to have blenny here, especially considering the rock he was in was fully out of the water a few times before going in the tank, and only got temp acclimated

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[herp_mommy]

I just remembered a few years ago I bought a neglected and forgotten 120g and there was maybe 4" of old old water in it. When I took it apart to transport it a 8" banded leporinus flew out from under a rock. I bagged him but he didn't make it, I assume from the stress. Still crazy that nobody noticed that huge fish. Lol