weirdest thing found in your tank

puffer21 · #1 06/03/2006, 11:52 AM

What is the weirdest thing you have found in your tank?

Tate · #2 06/03/2006, 12:09 PM

A beer bottle.

I lock the room that the fish tank is in during party time now.

KDodds · #3 06/03/2006, 12:24 PM

A 4" horse conch. I have no idea how it got in there, and a huge Fireworm, probably 18-24", hard to tell because they can stretch so thin, also no idea how it got in. I'm assuming both hitchhiked in at very small sizes.

hairymushroom · #4 06/03/2006, 12:37 PM

A cleaner wrasse. i bought some LR from a nearby LFS's display tank and i asked them to bag it in some water as i was adding it to my already established tank and wanted minimal die off , so i put it in my tank , and out swims a cleaner wrasse.

murphreef · #5 06/03/2006, 01:16 PM

ive got about a 4"+ abalone that came in on some LR

he was only a baby when i found him about a year ago he was no bigger than a quarter and within that year he has gotten huge and hes always out crusing the tank at night talk about wierd lol

melev · #6 06/03/2006, 04:14 PM

I didn't know what it was at first, and thought it was a reflection tricking my eyes. When I pulled it out, it took a few seconds for me to put two and two together.

Then I saw this:

mr pink floyd · #7 06/03/2006, 04:40 PM

ouch, lose anything from the UV?

melev · #8 06/03/2006, 04:58 PM

Fortunately, the few items that bleached recovered in a couple of days.

jiggy · #9 06/03/2006, 05:01 PM

great white shark eggs =P

Freed · #10 06/03/2006, 05:12 PM

If it's a SE there shouldn't be any UV issues should there? Or is that only if the bulb is still in tact?

Andrew · #11 06/03/2006, 05:17 PM

I found a dead shark egg that must have came off my rock or something. The egg was about 1.5'' long. Also found a paper clip and I have no idea how that got in there.

jojabis · #12 06/03/2006, 05:45 PM

a black nudibranch

MAthU · #13 06/03/2006, 06:00 PM

i have like 10 black nudibranch's are they good? they came on the lr.

msman825 · #14 06/03/2006, 06:04 PM

A peanut butter sanwich in pieces that went through power heads. 5 year old said she feed the fish alreadyeek1: eek1

reefinmike · #15 06/03/2006, 06:42 PM

the wierdest thing i have seen in my tank was a fish.

nah... once i found a clear worm with a neon green stripe down its center... took it out... didnt know what it was.

HippieSmell · #16 06/03/2006, 06:44 PM

I found this guy:

DaveG99 · #17 06/03/2006, 07:07 PM

I found a blenny that hitch hiked on my live rock. I also got a clingfish on my live rock. The blenny has since died and the cling fish was put back into the ocean where it came from.

puffer21 · #18 06/03/2006, 07:33 PM

Hey if anyone has a pic of what they have post it.

melev · #19 06/03/2006, 08:50 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Freed
If it's a SE there shouldn't be any UV issues should there? Or is that only if the bulb is still in tact?

Once the outer shell is cracked or broken, UV is leaking. That is how I understand it.

ACBlinky · #20 06/03/2006, 10:14 PM

I found a chiton, he really freaked me out the first time I saw him. He had apparantly lived in the tank, unseen, for nearly a year before that day (the last time I added any LR was at least nine months ago). He's getting big - around 1.5" now - and coming out every night. I can see where he's been during the night, he leaves trails in the coralline that covers the back wall.
I also found a cherry red mantis in the same tank, that must have also been there for nearly a year; I removed a coral for fragging, and he fell off the skeleton - just about into my lap! I saved him and gave him a home in my 5.5g, haven't seen him since I added him months ago.
I guess those aren't too unusual, but the amount of time they went unnoticed is what I find fascinating.

Here's the chiton:

s2svetko · #21 06/04/2006, 01:07 AM

I think one of my first pieces of live rock had a small piece of a christmas tree coral, but my lights were too weak to keep it and now its gone and there was a dead seahorse on it too..

jeffreylam1132 · #22 06/04/2006, 04:59 AM

My friend's tank that was filled with chocolate chip cookies. His 5 yrs old son decided to feed the tank and thought chocolate chip cookies would make the fish happy. It sure did, alright.

nathansinger · #23 06/05/2006, 01:29 AM

I found about a 16" bobbit worm. What an incredibly creepy looking animal. Apparently they can grow many many feet long in the wild and look like the sand worms from "Dune."

bboyin4lyf · #24 06/05/2006, 05:55 AM

heard of a guy whos fish kept disappearing after adding some lr, a couple weeks later with no fish left he saw a snowflake eel. lol poor guy

Sk8r · #25 06/05/2006, 09:40 AM

A bubbleshell slug noshing on my montis.