Our tanks are truly amazing ecosystems.....
My liferock had more than a couple of hitchhikers on it.....What shocks me is the amount of new life which pops up even to this day (I dip my corals, etc; so 99% sure that whatever pops up was in the rock to begin with). Check out this little guy I captured tonight. He was just roaming around the sand - so an easy catch:
Any idea as to what he could be ? He's TINY right now; maybe about the size of a penny. I do recall seeing some larger crabs which looked kinda like him when I first got the LR; judging by their claws I didn't feel like they were 'reef safe' so I sump'd them. Clearly I missed a couple and/or the ones in the sump were doing some XXX activities down there
I moved him down to the sump; as the spots on his back make be believe he's most likely from the xanthidae family.