What Surprises have you found in your Reef Tank?

[FishDaddy]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><HR>I have 1 snail that came in on a rock and it has a white shell with neat markings and a long extension and it only comes out at night.
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Johnny, just as long as it isn't one of these:

Cone Shells
http://www.pharmacology.unimelb.edu.au/pharmwww/avruweb/Cones.htm

I've had my share of surprises, from hitchiker crabs; Valonia

; Aiptasia

; worms and 'pods of all descriptions; tiny white starfish; and a whole herd of tiny limpets that are great algae eaters!
Indeed, the "Critters on Live Rock" are some of the most interesting aspects of reefkeeping!
Dick

[ September 02, 2001: Message edited by: FishDaddy ]

 

[ems3411]

A trial size of fixodent.. seriously, I came home one day and my daughter had thown it in my 30 gal... (thank goodness it was sealed tightly) True story. My mom gave it to me, why i'm not sure, I am only 28 and I have no false teeth yet..
Oh you probably wanted serious finds.. just a little featherduster that came on a piece of liverock.

Bob

 

[imow]

I had a blue linka star come in on some live rock. Been in the tank for 3 years now. Found hime with only 2 legs, now has all 5.

 

[SuperLeet]

humu, thats incredible the life you described getting on your rock. WHERE DO YOU GET IT?!?

 

[Les1]

My 55 gallon tank has been set up for 3 weeks, and so far i have found 8 featherduster and 2 sponges.
Les

 

[Anonymous]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Sniper308:
<STRONG>Hey Cheese Sandwich, what the hell are those {}? You post them on every topic. Is this how you have 692 posts. You just go around and put stupid #@%$ on peoples topics. If you cant say something intellegent, dont say any thing.</STRONG><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

just wanted to add that if you count his posts as MathGuy he is in the area of 1500 posts FWIW.

 

[dmm32]

Hi,

Went to look in my tank at knight,wow there was a big sea urchin and I didnt put it in there,I think maybe he came in on some rock or something and after time just got big, just don't know why I didn't see him before.

David

 

[charro]

Well Ging, my apologies for getting your name wrong, I must have misunderstood Ron @ Mty conference. They are the same, yours is a brighter orange & slightly longer skirt over shell. Thanks so much for the reference!

 

[Mouse]

Superleet, the guy lives in Hawaii. Where would you get your rocks from?

 

[Patti]

About 5 months after setting up my reef tank, I discovered 2 gorgeous white nudibranches, a couple weeks later found 3 baby ones ! Now a year later they have disappeared but they were so pretty !!

Patti

 

[ging]

No problem charro

It is cool to know someone else with a fleshy limpet. If you find any interesting info on them let me know and I will do the same. There seems to be no reading on them at all. I have tried some food that Dr. Ron had suggested, but he seems to only go for the glass and rock. He seems to have gone thru a growing spurt, his fleshy part was stretching past his top hole and looked a little dull. I was kinda worried about him, but he is fine now. He is so beautiful and I would have a tank full if I could find some more. If you look at mojomadness.org you can see some pics of him.

 

[Anonymous]

The other day I picked up my derasa clam and found a razor blade under it!

 

[reefNewbie]

The LR I get never has anything interesting on it, except maybe a feather duster or two which usually gets eaten.

 

[zooqi]

Then you should check this site.. I saw these rocks that arrived today at Ron's Saltwater Heaven in Williamsport, PA and they had all kinds of life from muscles, corals and snails.
http://www.saltwaterheaven.com/liverock/1.html
cool ha

 

[fishfarmer]

I think the most interesting stuff I have on my LR is what survived my tank crash. On some of the orginal Fiji rock over two years old, I have various oysters and green mussles. The green ones have been reproducing. I still have a barnacle or two as well as some sort of trapdoor worm that has a snail type head and sends out a mucous net daily and then reels it in.

On the gulfview rock what survived were most of the featherdusters, some red, some blue, both are reproducing. The corals that came on the Florida rock are also doing well.

 

[Anonymous]

Muscles, some sort of clams, worms, Stars, feather dusters, crabs, snails that reproduced over a 100 babies.

Had a nudibranche but disappered after a land slide of LR cause by a Goby.

And the unfortunate "Aptasia"
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[brandon4291]

Dr. Ron has kindly Id'd a hitchhiker I have in my little reef--he's a frag stealer and rather unwelcomed, but I have to admit he's lively and one of the most intelligent animals in my tank. Dr. Ron explained they may show predatory characters and can grow to five feet long under ideal conditions! Considering my reef holds just about a gallon of water, he can't stay in there very long

Ill have to get him out someday.

brandon429