Whats the best hitch hiker you've had?

I was fishing one day and caught an oyster shell,it had a lot of tube worms and feather dusters on it so I kept it. A few hours after I put it in my tank a small blenny was setting on top of it. It also had 5 porelain crabs. The worst thing was brown crabs with black tip claws, from the same shell.

 

Best: orange encrusting monti with orange polyps, halimeda,

Worst: aptasia, bristle worms

 

The best: are either feather dusters and small snails that have now reproduced.

The Worst: Aptasia, but luckily i got rid of it when i got my new tank set up.

 

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It was a couple of greenish mussels with some cool back stripes. Hopefully they spead.;D

 

Best : a couple nickle sized brittle stars that are about six inches in diameter now after two years

Worst : The biggest aptasia ever!! It was small at first, around a half inch, but its polyp grew to about three inches in diameter a year later. I could never get rid of it because it was a rock at the base. I had to tear down half my reef one day to finally kill it. I got lucky because it never spread. Just one gigantic polyp!!

 

so far, my clam he's the only hitchhiker i've seen during the 5 weeks of cycling lol

 

Went to the lfs to buy some rock and ended up with a AWSOME x-mas tree rock (30 or so) for $5 a pound. woops

 

Worst ever hitchhiker...

Your MOM

LOL

 

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Found a chiton one night when lights were off, except for the moon lights. I think he' a good one.

worst was one aptasia which was growing in a piece of live rock that I got from a fellow reefer that had xenia and zoos on it. Didn't notice it at first, cause I guess the zoos covered it, but one day, saw it start coming out. About 1/2 inch in size, so I zapped it at it's root and it never grew again. Guess I got it all.
What did I use to zap it? Well, from reading different forums, everybody has a different way. Some use hot water, joes juice, vinegar, etc. What I did is boiled some vinegar in the microwave and using a syringe, injected about 5 cc of boiling vinegar into the root of the aptasia. Best of both worlds. Heat and acid.

 

I have one that fits both camps, I found a Pseudocorynactis (Pacific type that came in on some Tonga rock) and thought it was the coolest thing ever, 10 months later and I now have two of them and the stomatella population in my tank has been radically reduced. Wild how one moment you can be completely captivated by something only to have this dawning realization that this cute little dude with the waving tentacles can really grow into some sort of bottom-less pit feeding on whatever gets too close to it that – one of those old 60’s B-movie monsters.

It doesn’t seem to be able to eat any of the bristleworms or trochus snails though and despite all this it’s still on the cool list, it takes a lot to survive a trip to our tanks and you need to respect that I guess.

The Aiptasia, bryopsis and the red-eyed crab I can never seem to catch however are not.