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A fun thing to spot when I get home from work. 🙂😅 time to get a crab I guess

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Short video of the random marks / tracks that keep showing up on my rock

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Trying to id this stuff growing over my rock

Its balck / brown in color blows off easily with a feeding tub and sucks up easily during water changes

Can clean it off the rocks today and 2 days later its back ai and local reef pages ( in new zealand ) havent been much help any ideas

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#help I do not know that is this. It' form is thin and not soft, little hard. Could someone help me to identify this thing?

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I found a very well camouflage hitch hiker in my xenia!

Apparently they are called xenia crabs (not gonna lie I really did not saw it until i really took a closer look to inspect my xenia for damges and noticed some stalks that does'nt have some fingers and was like whoa why is that stalk moving sideways!!)

They have a very cool symbiotic relationship on a xenia, they eat xenia while they also protect xenia!

Will this help me control xenia's weed-like nature that spread quickly or will i need to find him a friend?

Look at 2nd pic and have fun finding him 🤣

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