Suprise critters-everyone post!

[Marinefish]

This is a thread about any suprise animals in any tank, reef or not. Weird stuff in LR, fish or corals doing wacky stuff, anything out of the ordinary. I'll start off with a couple of mine. I recently purchased a Hector's goby from LiveAquaria, and after he got over being a chicken, he started chowing down on the tufts of HAIR ALGAE scattered around my tank! He also wouldn't eat frozen food, preferring flake. About the same time, my bluestripe pipefish started acting EXACTLY like a cleaner wrasse! Anyone else had experience with these fish doing this?

[Original Fin]

These were all hitch hikers I've id'd in and on my live rock:

Rock boring muscles
Stromatella snails
Vermetid snails
Chittons
Sponges
Tunicates
Pods
Peanut worms
Bristle worms
Spaghetti worms
Halimeda macro algae
Gracilara Macro Algae
Xanthid crab
Feather dusters
Aiptasia
Asternina starfish

The best story I've heard lately though was from a guy i recently bought rock from. He said that he had a sea hare that had a very small symbiotic fish that lived in the sea hare's butt hole, which would occasionally come out and swim around the tank when the lights were out...that's how he found it.




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[Original Fin]

I also had a big hairy spider living in my sump. He would walk across and cast his web over the floating mat of Chaeto, and catch and eat amphipods.


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[Original Fin]

The best story I've heard lately though was from a guy i recently bought rock from. He said that he had a sea hare that had a very small symbiotic fish that lived in the sea hare's butt hole, which would occasionally come out and swim around the tank when the lights were out...that's how he found it.

I'm sorry, I think it was actually a sea cucumber.

http://echinoblog.blogspot.com/2010/...r-throats.html


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[chrisfont23]

These were all hitch hikers I've id'd in and on my live rock:

Rock boring muscles
Stromatella snails
Vermetid snails
Chittons
Sponges
Tunicates
Pods
Peanut worms
Bristle worms
Spaghetti worms
Halimeda macro algae
Gracilara Macro Algae
Xanthid crab
Feather dusters
Aiptasia
Asternina starfish

The best story I've heard lately though was from a guy i recently bought rock from. He said that he had a sea hare that had a very small symbiotic fish that lived in the sea hare's butt hole, which would occasionally come out and swim around the tank when the lights were out...that's how he found it.

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Fin, what did you do to catch your Xanthid crab - if you did anything?

[trustinno1]

the weiredist thing oi have in my tanks came on a picece of live rock it looks like hair on the rock an then these tenactale come out of an pick at the rock i duno what this thing is....

[Original Fin]

Fin, what did you do to catch your Xanthid crab - if you did anything?

Chris,

I made a sports bottle trap, and baited it with a silverside. Pretty simple...weight it down with rock/sand, cut an X in the side and fold the flaps in. Orient the entrance near a rock ledge.



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[gordogutierrez]

So I go into my LFS and I see a really nice piece of rock bout a twenty to thirty pounder. Had some really nice color to it. I had my heart set on buying myself a fish to add to my 220. Well I decided to spend all my cash on buying live rock. I get home and I'm Ive forgotten that my son has a t ball game. I leave the rock sitting out of the tank until i get home an hour or so later. I drop the rock in and I get a sharp bite to my finger. WHOLLY Crap I have little teeth marks on the side of my freaking thumb. I look into the tank and don't see a thing and I don't have any aggressive fish. I put my hand back in and here comes a freaking snowflake moray eel trying to take out my hand. He was a little guy at the time. I did the right thing and called the LFS back told him what had happened and that I would pay him for Eel but he told me that it wasn't on his inventory and that I could keep him. Happy Birthday Me.......

[Marinefish]

the weiredist thing oi have in my tanks came on a picece of live rock it looks like hair on the rock an then these tenactale come out of an pick at the rock i duno what this thing is....

Could be a peanut worm. Can you post a photo?