This hobby does not cease to amaze ... check out this hitchhiker!

[Butuz]

Guys, wanted to share an interesting and puzzling development. I got this small rock with a few zoas from one of the reefers a long time ago, must have been at least 9-12 months ago. About 30 days ago I noticed something small growing, thought it was a few closed up zoa polyps clustered together. It is now clear that its some sort of a torch. Doesn't look like its from any of mine, so must have either hitchhiked on this rock or one of the plugs. Does anyone know what type of a torch this is?

 

[4tanks]

Looks like a purple and green hammer to me

 

[Sisterlimonpot]

I would say hammer as well.

 

[Tundra Cuttle]

Hammer, what an awesome hitchhiker, wow!

 

[4tanks]

The only hitch hiker I get is snails and you get a £50 hammer

 

[Butuz]

Awesome, thanks, guys.

 

[fishguy242]

nice score!! hammer hitchhiker ..lol cool

 

[vetteguy53081]

the good hammer . A frag like this minimum $20 value !!

 

[SMSREEF]

the good hammer . A frag like this minimum $20 value !!

Come on now, that’s a Golden Hammer Angel From Heaven, at least $500

But seriously @Butuz , this is a really cool hitch hiker! I would be stoked!

 

[LRT]

Super cool!

 

[Hugh Mann]

I'm jealous. Only notable hitchhikers I've got are a brittle star, bristle worms and an accursed mantis shrimp.

 

[Uptowngirl]

You should play the lottery if you are this lucky

 

[Butuz]

LOL. Super cool. Amazing these things pop up 9 months after. Wonder what else is out there!

 

[Daniel@R2R]

DOPE!!

 

[MartinWaite]

It's great I don't get hitchhikers but I win quite a few coral competitions if you ask the wife.

 

[Thespammailaccount]

It's great I don't get hitchhikers but I win quite a few coral competitions if you ask the wife.

I know right I win 75% myself

 

[Dr. Jim]

Here's a hitchhiker I recently got on Gulf of Mexico live rock....

Rose Coral (about 1.5") ....got two of them actually. The other one was chopped up pretty badly when it arrived but made a full recovery. Amazing!

 

[G Santana]

Nice hitchhiker!!!

 

[OrionN]

Corals.com got their Torch coral to spawn and produce live babies. There is a thread on this some where here. Something similar must happened in the tank of the person who sold you the frag. Please notified him. It would be very interesting. He deserve to know that he did a great job taken care of his corals.

 

[OrionN]

Here is the link to this Torch's spawn at @Corals.com

Torch Spawn Again at Corals.com! Check these little torch out!

Hey Everyone! Looks like our torch were at it again! About 5 months ago, we discovered 6 torch in our tanks that were the result of spawning. Now, 5 months later, we discovered 5 more new baby torch corals from another spawning! They're all attached to substrate that is about 1/4" just to give...

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