What is the most valuable hitchhiker you found on live rock??

[reefmaster719]

Title says it all. Would love to hear about your experiences on hitchhikers...

 

[ReeferMatt]

I did get a piece of liverock with a Caribbean rose brain on it, nice piece but not sure what it is worth.

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[SteveT]

Stomatella snails come on live rock all the time. They are awesome little algae eaters and they readily reproduce in any aquarium.

 

[reefmaster719]

Yeah I heard they are pretty rare.

 

[Haulin Oates]

I got an elephant ear mushroom!

 

[reefmaster719]

Wow that's pretty strange. Are they valuable?

 

[Haulin Oates]

Ehh... I've never seen one at the LFS, but I'm sure you could get one online or something.

 

[DyM]

Not sure if this counts but I bought live rock from someone, got it home, had it in a a brute garbage can in the garage (with heater and pump). Put it in my display a week later.... Within a day after that I noticed I had a blemmy. I called the guy and he said he thought the fish had jumped out or something. So this blemmy was a hitchhiker for me.... about six years ago now.... and he's huge.

 

[cremer9]

Stomatella snails

 

[adoucette]

Had a mantis and an urchan. Mantis was a pain to catch. Urchan was cool.

 

[Ghosty]

Not sure if this counts but I bought live rock from someone, got it home, had it in a a brute garbage can in the garage (with heater and pump). Put it in my display a week later.... Within a day after that I noticed I had a blemmy. I called the guy and he said he thought the fish had jumped out or something. So this blemmy was a hitchhiker for me.... about six years ago now.... and he's huge.

What a great story! Geeze, how big a rock? He was hiding deep in some hole? Sounds like he's a senior citizen in fish-years, heheh.

 

[DyM]

Rock was huge with tons of holes. I have a pair of Percs that are confirmed 11 yrs old.. That seem unreal but absolutely true.

 

[LittleCrabby101]

I've gotten some teddy bear crabs as hitchhikers and they can rip up a reef tank quick. Once they make a hole in the rock it's hard to get them out.

 

[reefmaster719]

Wow great finds everyone. My buddy got a piece of rock from a guy in Denver and found a blue hippo tang in the middle. He had to break the rock to get him out but what a find lol.

 

[ReefCheif]

Ive had a mantis, luckily he went in a bio cube i was working on, so I just kept him there for about a year, before he outgrew it and I got rid of him. Last time I bought rock fomr a LFS I cam home to find a mini maxi, and I mean mini maxi, this thing was the size of a quarter and never got any bigger. Bought a decent size piece from Elite a couple weeks and the thing was full of bright green nudis, or at least I think their nudis, ive counted 5 in my tank so far and the aptasia has pretty much gone away, NOW THAT WAS A SCORE.