What are some of your live rock creatures you've stumbled upon?

[lionstorm]

When I did my crushed coral to deep sand bed switch recently I was moving my live rock around for the first time, and I put my hand in a rock and felt something squishy, turned out to be a really large pink barnacle!
amazing some of the things you'd never know you had until you put your hand in it

 

[chuckularone]

Good thing it wasn't something that could bite!

 

[lionstorm]

my thoughts exactly!! lol

 

[the claw]

That's what's so exciting about live rock, you never know what might crawl or grow out.

 

[tlk]

momma always said...."life is like a box of lr....you never know what you gonna get......"

 

[buzz]

Let's see. My biggest find was a bunch of mini brittle stars that were living in some Fiji LR I bought. Other than that, a lot of fan worms, some snails, etc.

 

[sinner's girl]

we got an un-id'd crab that would not die (It lived in one rock...Sinner wanted it out...it wouldn't come out...Sinner even broke the rock banging it on the carpet...and left it out...figured he could stay in the tank if he lived after that...it ate shrimp, look like a strawberry crab)
a feather duster that lived through us moving and the tank cycling.

 

[sandman12]

with my lr i got urchins,feather dusters,crabs,like 15 to 20 britle stars (no joke),mantis shrimp,rock shrimp,an anenome, and other weird stuff like sponges. i got this rock for $2.99lb and it came with all that i was very impressed e-mail me if u want some milkmanf12@aol.com

 

[aarone]

wow thats a great cluster of dusters kip! i only got three on that i just spotted today, on a rock that is over 4 months old.
The largest one of the three.

 

[drakken]

Originally posted by tlk
momma always said...."life is like a box of lr....you never know what you gonna get......"
Hey! Did you steal this from my post??
https://forums.saltwaterfish.com/t/80456/ok-what-is-this-thing-pic

 

[tlk]

I cant get that post for some reason Drakken. I thought I was being original. If I make $$ from it, I will be sure to share the royalties

 

[luvnluk]

I recently moved and as I was placing the rock back in the tank I found a brittle star that was the size of my thumb nail - I'm amazed that it survived my cycle and the move!!!!

 

[wyldgunz]

I bought a 20lb piece of kaliene and set it in the tank . a few days later i noticed an object in a crevice so i got a closer look ....It was a clam shell. I pulled it out and it was a maxium about 1" across.
That was a pretty cool find.

 

[drakken]

Originally posted by tlk
I cant get that post for some reason Drakken. I thought I was being original. If I make $$ from it, I will be sure to share the royalties
LOL!!!! I was just teasin' a bit since I just wrote this 2 days ago...
Originally posted by Drakken

Forest Gump shoulda said...
"Life is like a box of Live Rock. Ya never know what you're gonna get."

 

[michaeltx]

fleshy limpet here. unusual little thing LOL and many many other little things.
here is a pic of the limpet though.
Mike

 

[horus]

so far... a month from putting my rock in my tank, I have an unidentified coral, pistol shrimp, three really tiny crabs( ones a porcelain, think ones a sally, don't know bout the other, 2 small emeralds, one blue hermit that survived my cycle, one snail with a cool black and yellow swirled shell, and a ton of dusters. All that in just 15 pounds of live rock... made the 6 bucks a pound worth it.

 

[broomer5]

coolest thing I've had on my live rock

 

[leboeuf]

broomer, yu get some incredable pics.
I have a rather large brittle star that showed up one day. It has grown into a 5-6 star that has never left the inner confines of a large base rock. A colony of zoo's. And of course free shrooms!

 

[popoty]

awesome pict broomer5

 

[jagermeister]

Broomer5,
Are those clove polyps? I have an entire rock covered with those exact same things and the closest id I've come to is clove polyps.