official live rock hitch hiker thread :)

[mindytoy]

just to make it fun post some pics of some hitchhikers you guys have gotten from live rock or coral etc....

im bearly cycling but already noticed a small rollie pollie looking guy but skinnier and smaller. also a sponge and a bunch of feather dusters


please post any you guys have gotten as well as which ones are bad or good?

 

[jph]

flatworms


J.

 

[newbie-to-reef]

two different star fish. One looks like a tiny linka and the other a brittle starfish along with the norm tiny feather dusters and a good amount of aptasia. Everything is getting cleaned up and looking good though. I used Aptasia-X and it seems to have worked very well.

 

[linz13]

i got a bunch of little bubble tip anemones. along with a tiny brittle starfish and a bunch of tiny feather dustersss. =] always fun hahaha

 

[mindytoy]

guys i dont have any clue how these would look. please post some pics please

 

[mindytoy]

also does it usually take a while for them to come out? or do you see it right away? cuz the only live little animal ive seen on mine is that rollie pollie little guy who i only saw once.

i can see the sponges, feather dusters, and other little colonies of things but nothing like a starfish or little creatures....

do they take a while?

 

[LJA]

Theres a million things you get that you will probably never see, I moved around my LR and found a small brittle star. Also have a bunch of some kind of worms that live in the rock about 3-6 inches long and very skinny that only come out at night to feed.

 

[mindytoy]

pics?

 

[Sk8r]

you'll probably get some bristleworms: don't panic. They're good. But the bubbleltip anemones are most likely majanos, not that good.
Your white rolypoly critter is probably an ampipod. They're not bad: they're fishfood if they come out of their rock at the wrong hour.
Has somebody got that link to Melev's IDs?

Hint: look at your tank by flashlight at night; and if you really want a show, cover it in red cellophane. Your sand may crawl when it really gets going.

 

[newbie-to-reef]

Here is a pic of my unidentified anemone. Take your best guess.

 

[mindytoy]

hey i have one of those anenomes too!

whats a redcellophate? ill try at night with a flash light hope i find some things

 

[Abbysmom]

it kind of looks liek aptasia....

 

[twoodall]

My tank is at my office, so I don't get to check in on it at night!

 

[seapug]

The anemones in the pic above are Pseudocorynactis. Actually a type corallimorph.

 

[newbie-to-reef]

seapug,
I've looked at lots of pics and although it looks very similar to pseudocorynactis its tentacles don't have little white tips. It may be what it is though. The largest on is the size of a dime when closed and maybe spans the size of a fifty cent piece when fully open.

 

[jason214]

just put clear red plastic over the lense

 

[mindytoy]

so if i put clear red lense all the criters come out? or is it better at night with a flashlight?

 

[seapug]

Ahh, right...just took a closer look. The look like they have a little skeleton at the base so they might be "starry cup corals". I can't recall the proper scientific name off hand, but there's a few species that are called that. Google search will probably provide more info.

 

[newbie-to-reef]

seapug,

Thanks for the help, but the pics I am seeing of those look like they all have pretty colors, these are a strange brown/orange under T5s and the tentacles are out most of the time. Like I said, give it you best guess, because I haven't been able to ID them as of this point either. Thanks for the ideas.

 

[Salamander]

newbie to reef......

Kinda looks like a hidden cup coral to me. Do they stem from hard skeletons? The smaller ones in the back look like they do.