SW hitchhickers! ask about the ones you don't know, tell us the ones you do!

[RoxyDog]

I thought we'd sticky a topic about hitchhikers.  Merging wasn't working well and I didn't want to go chopping up posts.  If you don't mind splitting up your old posts lemme know, or add some new ones here.

Here's mine.



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[kennyman]

This turned out to be a Solitary type polyp.



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[Alchemist]

A Caribbean coralimorph (fairly sure now)...pseudocorynactis species with white tips...likes dimly lit areas

[Severum]

I was shocked  to discover this nasty looking crab in my tank last night. At first I thought it was a bunch of hairy bristle worms until it started moving.

The strange thing is that I haven't added any live rock to my tank for about a month. The last hitchhiker crab I took out was over a month ago. This big guy must have been hiding out and decided to make an appearance at the wrong time.

He's a lot bigger than he looks in the picture...



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[groan]

funky!
maybe hes a good crab if he has been there this long and not caused any issues...
cool looking furry crab though!

from what i can find on yellow fuzzy crabs they are not reef safe.

[veron]

FLATWORMS. killed mt entire tank

[Steve_2]

flatworms will kill stuff in a tank? I have flatworms in my tank....not many though. Am I in trouble?

[SuperT]

The flatworms emit a toxin when they are killed.   Better to get a fish that consumes them rather than killing with a chemical (or like vernon said dip all corals).

Terry

[veron]

flatworms can wipe out a tank when theres numbers grow  and then they crash or you crash them. I try'd to remove as many as possible before using FLATWORM EXIT but it still wasn't enough. as of last night I lost my prized SOHAL TANG and all the other fish were hiding to be possible dead today corals also took a hit. won't know the true damage for a few days but most will probaly RTN [die]
very sad  day. at least the worms are gone and I'll never add anything without a dip first!  I pretty much know were they came from.
now, they can disappear on there own without problems but if the tank is nutrient rich [ie.. broken skimmer] then they'll mulitply.

[Tyler.L]

did they come from a store or someone on the board....or will you not disclose this information? also i'm sorry for your loss...i would probably cry

[Severum]

My hitchhickers keep on coming. I noticed this small white worm on the bottom on my xenia rock when I was moving them and decided to ignore it. I figured it was a detritivore. Boy was I wrong. Turns out it was a xenie-vore as a couple days later I noticed it clamped onto my pom pom like a lamprey sucking out its guts. You could see the pom pom guts moving around inside it. Needless to say it has been removed and the pom poms are getting better.




Now all I have to worry about is that aipstasia I noticed and the ich that wiped out all my fish



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