#ed_op#DIV#ed_cl#Bought a new piece of coral yesterday-- brought it home andput it in the tank (after acclimation)--in the afternoon when I went to feed the tank-- I noticed a hole on the side of this coral with something coming in and out of it-- after watching and watching-- I thought the hitchhiker might have been a mantis shrimp-- never experienced one before now-- went online-- sure enough the eyes and body are unmistakeable-- I decided to go ahead and pull the coral out before hedecided to relocate and bore a hole in something else-- pulled out the coral and put it in a bowl and tried to use hemastats to pull the sucker out-- it was so scarey-- he fought me all the way- he didn't seem afraid because he kept sticking his head out-- thenwhen he would attack the hemastats-- you could hear the clicking noise-- the whole thing was pretty crazy-- finallyI got him out of there-- it was a major battle though--The coral seems okay-- but you can never know for sure-- sometimes they get tissue trauma and slowly recede and die-- but I am just glad I got the mantis shrimp out of there . . . How common are theyas hitchhikers-- don't really look foward to dealing with that again . . .pieces of the situation are videotaped-- I got some pic's too-- I will post later-- if any of the pic's are good.#ed_op#/DIV#ed_cl#