What is the coolest hitch hiker?

trainfever

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Originally Posted by tscuda
It was a few years back. But I'd have to say it was the blond girl I picked up on Cherry Hill.
Her hair wasn't blonde and she wasn't hitchhiking. It was a little gray-haired old lady who got lost from the Cherry Hill Nursing Home.
 

monalisa

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I just got home from the LFS today. I needed to beef up my clean up crew, so I got 2 turbo snails and a half dozen hermits. When I put the bag for snails in the tank to begin acclimation, I noticed a very tiny asterina star in there....there was a time when I would have been over joyed with such a find, but seeing as I already have about 100 of them, I just scooped it out and put it in the tank with the snails...hmmmm....
The coolest hitch hiker I've gotten so far was a bumble bee snail on some live rock at the very start of my tank...I was a happy camper that evening, til I found out that he probably wouldn't make it through the cycle. He did eventually make it...we named him Speedy...but then he had a run in with my skimmer. I found him eventually when I did some maintenance on the skimmer and pulled the bio-media out...I have his shell in the tank as a memorial...poor Speedy.

Lisa :happyfish
 

seegert

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Originally Posted by tscuda
It was a few years back. But I'd have to say it was the blond girl I picked up on Cherry Hill.
 

seegert

Member
Originally Posted by trainfever
Her hair wasn't blonde and she wasn't hitchhiking. It was a little gray-haired old lady who got lost from the Cherry Hill Nursing Home.

 

dogstar

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This has been my coolest HH so far. I dont know what species it is..Discovered it about 4 years ago, still got it....Rarely see it out front, most of the time its hid somewhere in the rocks.
 

solarscar

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I think thats a lienka (sp) the blue kind maybe and i hear that its one of the hardest to keep. Good job, wow 4 years. I am curious since i have tons of brittle stars and who knows what else on my rocks, how big is that blue star of yours now? I am wondering if my brittles will make it and how large they will get and if they will start navigating the sand and glass instead of tiny holes. ROCK.
 

alyssia

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Originally Posted by Dogstar
This has been my coolest HH so far. I dont know what species it is..Discovered it about 4 years ago, still got it....Rarely see it out front, most of the time its hid somewhere in the rocks.

Is it some kind of linckia?
 

dogstar

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Originally Posted by alyssia
Is it some kind of linckia?
Yea, Im pretty sure its a Linckia sp. but I dont know the exact species tho. Maybe Linckia guildingi.....Mines about 4 in. tip to tip.
 

alyssia

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Originally Posted by Dogstar
Yea, Im pretty sure its a Linckia sp. but I dont know the exact species tho. Maybe Linckia guildingi.....Mines about 4 in. tip to tip.

You are so lucky! I have tried two blue linckias but they died within a couple of weeks, even though I acclimated them for 5 hours.
 

nigerbang

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the coolest would have to be the 2fer i got once...I bought a 15lb LR and got a cuke and a brittle star
 
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