creatures from LR

[sturner]

I just added some of the best live rock I've ever seen (already cured) Tomorrow it will have been in my tank a week and already I've seen numberous things. Here's just what I've seen so far.
Three large serpants stars
numerous brittle stars
peanut worm (from first batch of live rock)
lots of pods and other small critters
countless feather dusters (very small to some med sizes)
some type of green macro algae
lots of sponges (green, white, orange and brown ones)
two patches of unidentified sps coral (brownish red)
another unidentified and hurting patch of coral (see my coral ID thread)
and all the zoas plus more that I have pictured below

 

[ice4ice]

Originally Posted by AW2x3
I got a 3/4" - 1" baby Fuzzy Dwarf Lion, one time. Couldnt figure out what was poking/stinging my hand, when putting the rock in the tank, until the little bugger came out swimming around.
WOW ! I've never heard of baby fish being hitch hikers on LR !!

 

[porthosandjazz]

Originally Posted by cyclops
From the rock I purchased (100lbs) came 3 pencil Urchins, 1 Brittle, and 1 small teddybear crab, I am still trying to rid of him but I only see him at night and he is deep in places where I can't get too.
My I ask what is wrong with a Teddy Bear crab?

 

[porthosandjazz]

Originally Posted by PhoenixOfThePyre
at that size he probably won't do much damage to your tank. a good 2" mantis could probably decimate your clean-up crew though. I see, it's no problem, alot of people think of mantis shrimps as a scourge. I went to a LFS once and I asked him to get a mantis in for me, and that day he serviced a tank and threw away about 6 mantis
I have heard that mantis shrimp can break glass... what do you keep him in?

 

[saltn00b]

real teddy bear crabs are most likely never to be hitchhikers, if they are , then you are lucky because they are a 30 dollar value and a great reef safe crab. for the million other crabs out there that might be hairy, try your best to get them out.

 

[carter3]

ugly grey sponges, a lot of pods and a lot of bristle worms that only come out after my snail clean the rock.

 

[phoenixofthepyre]

Originally Posted by porthosandjazz
I have heard that mantis shrimp can break glass... what do you keep him in?
That's only the large mantis shrimp that are able to. maybe a 6-7" Odontodactylus Scylarrus could break glass. I think they are the most powerful of all current known mantis. I have a ~3.75-4" one and he has hit the glass once when I tried to get a close look at him. Not a scratch or anything on the glass.
And for the original meaning of the thread....
Gorilla crabs
Mantis shrimp
Bristle worms
Brittle stars
Basket star(i think it was atleast)
emerald crabs
pods/small shrimp/assorted crabs
sponges
some type of polyp colony
caulerpa

 

[grabbitt]

I'm envious of all of you. I haven't gotten anything from my LR (yet). BUT YOU JUST WAIT! One day, I'm gonna get something to blow you all away. It's gonna be something sweet.. like an elephant.

 

[kilhullen]

Originally Posted by GRabbitt
I'm envious of all of you. I haven't gotten anything from my LR (yet). BUT YOU JUST WAIT! One day, I'm gonna get something to blow you all away. It's gonna be something sweet.. like an elephant.
I want to see pics of that!
I have a question - well actually a couple. I want to do live rock in our DT. I am trying to decide where to get it from and what kind to get.
Is it better to get cured or uncured?
I have heard that some live rock gets boated in and therefor is not very good quality for living things hitchiking in if you want them to, but how does cured come with anything - isn't it all gone or in the stores tanks so that they are making money on it instead of you getting the benefit of it (if they are beneficial)?
What is the difference between Tonga rock and Tufa rock (in layman's terms please - if you see my other posts / threads you will see I am such a newbie at this, but trying to learn as fast as I can)?
If you scrape the rock as part of the cureing process, and set it out to dry, etc. wouldn't that kill everything?!?!?!
People who get sponges, please tell me how? On this site, they say that the sponges are very difficult to keep mainly because if any air gets on them they starve, so how can you put them in your tank without putting the water from the store in there which is bad?
How can a fish hitchike without being noticed when he is as large as that (even though that was not very large I can see something that is 3/4")?
Sorry for the stupid questions.

 

[reefkprz]

so far I have gotten a baby gigas clam and a mandarin dragonette as my most astounding hitchikers.
more normal hitchikers such as feather dusters, chicken wing clams, hidden cup coral, limpets, strombus snails. and so on.

 

[b bauer]

2 limpets 1 fancy brittle star 1 emerald crab