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I have not found any undesireable hitchikers yet on mine.
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Kanai rock is great to build formations with. When I said that it had no or little hitchhikers it wasn't a bad thing, as I like to only have desirable hitchhikers. I have noticed one hitchhiker as of late, it looks like a transparent nudibranch and is only about 1 cm long.
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I had a lot of hitchhikers and I suppose any unidentified hitchhiker is potentially bad. I did remove two Mantis shrimps from it the day I bought it, and I continually found crabs, right up until I took some to Jon's house, where we found a small crab walking around in the bottom of the box. So in other words, my batch had a lot of hitchhiker, and therefore a certain proportion are bound to be bad. For me though, it's well worth the trouble and risk.
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Has anybody found any corals in this rock
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Plenty, members of the family Xeniidae, the family Fungiidae (perhaps the genus Cycloseris), the order Zoanthidea, the phylum Porifera, and animals which I believe were of the family Siderastreidae. It's hard to be any more specific.
As an aside, here's something fascinating I found on Wet Web Media. I thought of Tony/Jon's orange M. capricornis colony when I read this but I'm sure it applies to many of our corals here: "If you are keeping live Stony Corals, boring (as in digging, not yawning) species of Sponges of the genera Cliona (pictured, Cliona delatrix, the Red Boring Sponge; and Variable Boring Sponge, Siphonodictyon coralliphagum (3’s) are definitely out. However, strangely enough, if you find the Orange Icing Sponge, Mycale laevis (pictured) growing under your plate-type corals, this is not a "bad thing". This Sponge actually protects the Stony Coral from Boring Sponge infiltration." (http://www.wetwebmedia.com/sponges.htm) |
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About the liveliest hitchiker you're likely to get would be a crab or mantis shrimp. Sometimes you get a polyp or three, but not much more. |
:lol: What I wrote should be tempered by saying, none of them were of any significant size nor did they grow, nor were they really that exciting to look at.
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