jtoneil
New Member
I purched some gulf live rock about 3 weeks ago and some fiji rock 4 days ago and I hadn't noticed any hitchhickers until last night. My daughter and I were looking at the rock and we noticed a gorilla crab slip into a hole so we quickly grabed out the rock and removed him. I've read that they are bad but being very new to this hobby I thought it was pretty cool to see a new creature in there. I looked hard for a while longer and couldn't finding anything else.
This morning I get up and switch on my lighting and my 4 days new mated pair of coral banded shrimp are hanging out on some lr to great me. When I returned home from work this evening the shrimp were on the same rock. As I aproached the tank I took a triple take when I saw three standing there????? Actually it was a hitchhicker male that had already killed my mated male and was attacking my female. All I had in my 120g where those cb shrimp and a small clean up crew........
Im definatly learning the hard way.... I tried to add fish to my tank last month(lfs said it was ok to do) and I ended up with ick and wiped all but one out who is now going to live in my qt for 2 months. I'll chalk this up to another lesson learned.... sorry, I just needed to vent.
John
This morning I get up and switch on my lighting and my 4 days new mated pair of coral banded shrimp are hanging out on some lr to great me. When I returned home from work this evening the shrimp were on the same rock. As I aproached the tank I took a triple take when I saw three standing there????? Actually it was a hitchhicker male that had already killed my mated male and was attacking my female. All I had in my 120g where those cb shrimp and a small clean up crew........
Im definatly learning the hard way.... I tried to add fish to my tank last month(lfs said it was ok to do) and I ended up with ick and wiped all but one out who is now going to live in my qt for 2 months. I'll chalk this up to another lesson learned.... sorry, I just needed to vent.
John