Help me Identify hitch hikers please.

[SlyReefer]

Hey guys,

 

Sly Reefer here.

 

Just started a new 29g biocube and added some live rock after a week.  I am new to the hobby and need some help!

 

Have some hitchhikers id like you guys to help me identify.  Thank you

 

Pistol Shrimp?

 

 

 

Unknown??

 

#1

 

#2

 

#3

 

#4

 

#5

 

 

Barby thingies

Edited February 27, 2016 by SlyReefer

[Squishie89]

Before I get to the others which seem less of a problem, your first guy is actually a mantis shrimp. I would strongly recommend trying to trap it and see if someone wants it. Mantis shrimps will catch and eat pretty much anything mobile including fish, snails, hermits, shrimp. 

[Squishie89]

As for the others. I see: aiptasia and/or majano anemones (not good, they are a pest, many ways of killing them), last thing is a micro brittle star (really good to have, helps keep the tank clean and reproduces in captivity so you should have more before you know it), I see some small feather dusters (good sessile inverts that filter feed). Photo labeled #3 I am not sure what you are trying to show us, maybe draw a circle around it in paint so we know what it is you need ID'ed.

[mogurnda]

#4: Cup coral, either Phyllangia or Corangia.  Not a pest.

[Hilary]

Wish you lived closer - I'd take the mantis off your hands in a heartbeat!  Great little guys - they just don't play well with others.