Not an ID...only the coolest hitchhiker ever!!

jubbin2001

jubbin2001

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So it's been awhile for me posting here since I have been kind of busy...getting a new house, moving, loosing most of my 125g reef in the move
, and starting over. So the 125g reef is some what running again, after a few design changes to the sump. So I went out to get some LR from my LFS. Lucky me, a brandnew shipment came in and I just happened to arrive shortly after it did. So after spending about 2 hours going through the rock, I found this really nice giant of a rock (almost 3 feet wide and 1 1/2 feed tall) that had some great pore and crevice arrangment. Well I got it home and dropped it in my curing bin to be cured for a couple weeks. The next day I go down into the basement and happen to check up on it and lo and behold there is something that darts under the rock. So I grab my forcepts and gloves thinking I have a mantis on my hands, lift up the rock, and what do you think I see? This lil guy (only about 3" right now).

How cool is that? I can't say I have ever gotten a free fish before. I just had to share it with everyone. Feels good to be back.
-Jubb
 
jubbin2001

jubbin2001

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I believe it to be a gulf toadfish (opsanus beta). I am by no means an expert, but it seems to be the closest I can get for now. To bad they eat everything, it certainly would be some nice color in the 125g
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teresaq

teresaq

Active Member
Check with Renee aka Cranberry or greg, aka saxman. They have a lot of these type of fish.
Very cool find. Hope it makes it with all its been thru.
T
 
jubbin2001

jubbin2001

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For the time being he is isolated in a 10g tank untill: #1 I know he survives, and #2 I figure out which tank to put him in. I know he can't go in the reef, and due to his small size, I am afraid that there will be to much competition for food if I put him in my humu trigger/porcupine puffer tank (they attack anything I am holding in my hands because they think it's food....in hindsight, maybe I shouldn't have trained them to hand feed
), or they will pick on him (they are a bit larger, around 5"-6"). So for now I will just continue to grow him out untill I figure out what to do with him. Maybe once he gets up to his 11" mark I will throw him in with the puffer and trigger. If they grow anything like Engineer gobies, it shouldn't take very long
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