interesting thing my my live rock

[SuperXdude]

I set my tank up in late march.

Just noticed a tiny feather duster starting to grow out yesterday.

I knew there could be surprises, but 3 months after I set the tank up?

Kinda interesting.


SuperXdude

[Henry]

I noticed the same thing in my tank after a while. It started as just one and two here and there and then they just seemed to blossom all over the place. pretty cool.

Henry

[Richard]

It's amazing what can grow out of rock even after a long time. I have a piece of rock with what I thought was the dead remnants of some type of hard coral. A couple of weeks ago I turned off my lights except for my actinics and the thing was glowing an irridescent green color so I guess it's alive after all (always thought it was odd that algae never grew on it). I bought this rock almost a year ago and had never seen that before.

[captexas]

As Richard said, all kinds of stuff can show up over time. It's really amazing to watch what life comes out of what seems like a plain old rock! I've had my tank up and going for almost a year or so and I'm still seeing new things grow. I always loved watching it at night during the first few months and seeing what new things I could find swimming and crawling about the rock. Really cool.

[SuperXdude]

I've got remnants of hard coral on my older rock, but I am 101% sure it's completely dead.

I am looking to start with a frag of idiot proof coral in the near future though.

It's gotta be Tang and Damsel proof though...