December Photo Of the Month

[Mike O'Brien]

This month's photo contest will be featuring HITCHHIKER'S. Anything that crawled out of some rock or coral you bought is fair game. Good luck everyone !

[Rickyrooz]

This came out of my Tonga live rock.
http://jpatokal.iki.fi/photo/travel/Singapore/HawParVilla/Figure_HumanCrab.JPG

[Europa]

Lol :)

[Mike O'Brien]

That's strange.

[jxb647]

love the idea, when i get back from course this week i'll try to get a pic of somethin

[Mike O'Brien]

Here are some feather dusters and a bi-valve. I'm kind of amazed at how long these worms live. I've had that little rock for like 5 years and they are still there.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y157/Mike0101/pics408.jpg

[GSELLERS1245]

inspiration i guess...
dolabrivera dolabrivera
http://www.reeflounge.net/gallery/d/3085-2/ufo+001.jpg

[chessmanmark]

Here's my hitchhiker. No idea what it is.
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y65/chessmanmark/IMG_2585.jpg

[Rickyrooz]

Here's my hitchhiker. No idea what it is.
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y65/chessmanmark/IMG_2585.jpg

Purple Montipora Cap?

[chessmanmark]

I'm hoping it's something more exotic. It came in on a LE Bali-tri color. I think it has blue polyps and it has ridges on it, whereas my caps are more flat. It's growing too slow to be a cap IMO.

[Mike O'Brien]

That looks similar to this one. The color is a little lighter in this one. My LFS has the mother that wouldn't fit into my tank. It is purple with really small light blue polyps in person. The ridges don't seem as pronounced in the larger colony. I don't know what it is either and I wouldn't even want to venture a guess.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y157/Mike0101/monti.jpg

[miket]

This urchin was a hitchhiker from the Tampa Bay Saltwater live rock, it's been in the tank for three years. It's black, it grows, and it eats my lovely coralline like a champ (the bastard). It hates daylight and seems to prefer to munch on the lighter pink coralline, giving my darker and more fancy coraline an advantage. Sometimes it bums me out when it really goes to town on a rock though.

In the picture the white splotches in the coralline below him are from his eating. I see him poop out pink dust sometimes (it's mostly white though).

http://www.socaldivevideos.com/125reef/urchin.jpg

- MikeT

[FishTankFreddie]

this guy just showed up one day. came from the rock that started it all. was in a 10g for 6 months before the rock got moved to the 29g up for 4months past that. didnt see him till 2 months ago. the anemone in the pic was about 5in across and it wraps down the rock out of view
http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l307/fmmrz5/DSCN2275.jpg

[stevo4535]

Not %100 sure on ID guessing Rock anenome ??

Cell phone pic sorry

http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w312/stevo4535/jkiiikkikikik.jpg

[firegoby]

http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/7257/09122007056qo2.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
baby Short Tentacled Plate Coral base at died Short Tentacled Plate Coral rock

[Rickyrooz]

Not %100 sure on ID guessing Rock anenome ??

Cell phone pic sorry

http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w312/stevo4535/jkiiikkikikik.jpg

That's good resolution for a cell phone.

[firegoby]

me also using cell phone camera to take my pic ,i'm using nokia n73 with 3.2 mp camera .wat kind of cell phone u r using ??

[Mike O'Brien]

http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/7257/09122007056qo2.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
baby disc coral base at died disc coral body .

Actually anthocaulli from a Fungia coral. That can be a gold mine for you, they should just keep being produced from the dead skeleton. Just let them pop off on their own and you can sell or trade them.

[firegoby]

http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/2955/08102007029pr2.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
this is the bigger one in my tank.

[Mike O'Brien]

Not %100 sure on ID guessing Rock anenome ??


Some call Aiptasia rock anemones.

[stevo4535]

me also using cell phone camera to take my pic ,i'm using nokia n73 with 3.2 mp camera .wat kind of cell phone u r using ??


I use a Samsung SCH A990 it also has a 3.2MP I got it a little over a year ago simply because it was the best camera phone avail. it still serves me well while I dont have any other camera anymore (causing the lack of POTM entries) When I use the 3.2MP I use 2048x1536

I hear that new Nokia N73 is pretty good too.

[gsxunv04@aol.com]

geez, my digital camera doesnt have 3.2 mega pixels! i need to get a new camera, let alone a cell phone

[stevo4535]

yea, I figured I got two birds with one stone

[stevo4535]

now we need more entries for Hitchhikers....

[Rickyrooz]

I couldn't get a picture of my red feather dusters so I'm going to enter one of my sponges into the contest.
http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa85/YellowBellyTang/Sponge.jpg

[Mike O'Brien]

You guy's have to the end of the Month to get in your last minute pictures. Let's see some more.

As an added incentive this month, the winner of the contest will be sent a bottle of Pinpoint 53 ms salinity calibration solution. This can be used to correctly calibrate your refractometer. It's an inexpensive prize, but hey, it's a prize.

http://www.marinedepot.com/ps_ViewItem~SearchStr~salinity%20calibration%20sol ution~action~view~idProduct~AM1437~idCategory~FITE CL~category~American_Marine_Pinpoint_Salinity_Cali bration_Fluid_Saltwater_Aquarium_Supplies_Testing_ Equipment_Calibration_Solution~vendor~.html

[Mike O'Brien]

I'm not sensing the excitement.

[gsxunv04@aol.com]

if i could get a good camera to use i will take a pic of this cool clam/bivalve that came non my rock

[gsxunv04@aol.com]

how do i upload pics?

[Rickyrooz]

I use photobucket and paste the url.