Memory Test - Do you remember your first hitchhiker?

[Reefing102]

So another thread got me thinking…Do you remember your very first hitchhiker? Whether it was a huh what’s that? Or wow that’s cool?

Mine I would have to say is a core memory (don’t ask why, as I have no idea) but bought one of my first pieces of Fiji live rock in 2003. It had a neat little cave on the back side. Bought it from Today’s Pet, the second set of their wall of fish tanks, bottom left tank, towards the middle, in the Columbia Mall in Maryland. Put it in my 12 gallon JBJ Nano Cube and that night a black brittle star, about 6 inch leg span or so, crawled out of the cave. That thing lived for years and I still have that piece of rock.

Okay you can call me wierd now. But do you remember your very first hitchhiker?

 

[StartingATank]

I mean, I see dry rock, so my first hitchhiker was spirorbid worms I got off a blasto

 

[mcarroll]

Copepods, mysid shrimps and amphipods. (Pukani rock from mid-early 2000's)

I've never seen live mysids since then. (In my tank or any others I've seen.)

I regret adding the one fish I added to that system....it completely wiped out the mysids, and even the copepods and amphipods never recovered to previous levels.

 

[sixty_reefer]

Pretty sure it was Aipatasia and hydroids

 

[Gumbies R Us]

Does gsp that my urchin brought to our tank count?

 

[Reefing102]

Does gsp that my urchin brought to our tank count?

Absolutely!

 

[Reefing102]

Copepods, mysid shrimps and amphipods. (Pukani rock from mid-early 2000's)

I've never seen live mysids since then. (In my tank or any others I've seen.)

I regret adding the one fish I added to that system....it completely wiped out the mysids, and even the copepods and amphipods never recovered to previous levels.

Which fish was it?

 

[RoanokeReef]

Mine was GSP

 

[kitti-fish]

Those dang tube vermatid snails I still have it too. I tried to kill one and then it became 2. I gave up and let it be for now.