Hitchhiker images? You have?

[btang]

Dewman, I think your shot looks great. Sometimes you need more than one pic to get a good ID. Helps folks out better. They are pretty cool looking.

 

[btang]

Got one more I just found today (tanks been up for 3 months)

 

[spsmike]

Its that a nudibranch? If so I wonder what he eats or been eating?

 

[Anonymous]

I believe it's a Skirted Limpet.

 

[btang]

I see it (I think) on pg 113 of Invertebrates by Sprung.

Elephant snail, scutus, Black Limpet.

 

[Anonymous]

I'm not sure its Asterina... its awfully even all the way around and even up close I have never seen that amount of coloration.

Does this pic help identify the previous Starfish?

 

[danimal]

Been with me since the beginnning....

 

[64Ivy]

Ribbon Worm.

Red Bugs, since edradicated

And, believe it or not, my very first acro was a hitchiker. Here is a picture (circa 1999) of the coral several months after I discovered it growing 'spontaneously' from a piece of live rock which had been in the tank nearly three years. Please excuse the quality...this WAS digital 1999 :lol: .

But look what it grew into a few years later. TEN POUNDS of acro! This is a shot of it finally being removed from the tank to be fragged. A good sized colony is still with me today.

 

[Anonymous]

8O 8O

 

[dubbin1]

I got 2 of these Hawaiian Strawberry Crabs on a coral I just got this weekend.

 

[dizzy]

I got this rock in from Indo 8-days ago. We were moving it around today and noticed these eggs. They are approximately 1mm in diameter. They are in strings and look something like octopus eggs to me. I don't have a clue what they are, but so far no fungus.
Mitch

 

[dizzy]

Here are the eggs on March 8th 05 and on March 11th three days later. Only two or three eggs appear to be infertile. I'm guessing these are some sort of Cephalopod egg.
Mitch

 

[zonkers]

Here's one of my favorite hitchhikers yet. Unfortunately, he was only around for a couple of months, then disappeared. I figure he probably starved from a lack of some kind of obligate prey. Never got an id on him-- any ideas?

Pete

 

[zonkers]

OK here's one for you guys-- sponge? tunicate? Anyone...? Beuller...?

It's been gowing for awhile & has over grown a small worm tube. The central opening opens & closes slowly during the course of the day. Its about 3 inches across & about 2 inches deep. Looks like a smiley face inside

 

[Anonymous]

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[RondaGP]

Everyone will tell me this is Aiptasia but it has been on this rock for several years and has yet to reproduce.
I have everything I need when if it does but it was my first hitchhiker so I'm keeping it for now.

 

[RondaGP]

Disc Coral?

 

[RondaGP]

I have two in pink too.
All are about 2 to 3 millimeters in diameter.

 

[RondaGP]

Here is my red clinging crab eating one of my astreas.

 

[RondaGP]

Another shot of Neil eating Tom.