Duckweed, ramshorns, and pond snails... Wish I could get some fishy eggs or some nice inverts on them 
Plant hitchhikers
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If you want the more unusual hitchhikers, you've got to wild-collect your plants. Then you can get things like this:
I have gotten snails, duckweed, planaria, leeches, and even dragonfly larva. I used to have cherry shrimp in a one 55g with mystery snails. Then in about two weeks time the shrimp disappeared and a couple of snail died. Then a couple of weeks later there was a dragonfly in the room. After looking closer I noticed two more dragonfly larva in the tank that I caught and feed to my goldfish. Problem solved! I also have a 75gal that has leeches and a few planaria in it. It also has cherry shrimp in it. Anybody have any good ideas to totally get rid of them with out killing of the shrimp?
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Ive gotten snails, shrimp, a nerite snail once, some small crypts that are now huge, some baby guppies, duckweed which is a pita to get rid of, and i even got a couple of angel fish eggs that were attached to some java moss from the show tank at my lfs, that was quite a surprise to find a couple weeks later. I now have 2 mature koi angels that live happily in my 55 gallon tank.
DAVIDFBT
Extinct? Since when?
I get snails usually, but I once found a skeleton of a little fishy in a big bag of java moss. The fish must have gotten stuck in there for a long time because the moss had already attached to it.
I bring plant from the wild to my pond, and I found a tadpole in a bag of hornwort from a lake. When I find duckweed, I usually keep it for my Fire-Bellied Toads for their little "pond", they like to jump in and let only their eyes and nostrils stick out. I need more duckweed though because I forgot to put conditioner when doing a water change and it killed off all the duck weed except for 10-15 leaflets.
I bring plant from the wild to my pond, and I found a tadpole in a bag of hornwort from a lake. When I find duckweed, I usually keep it for my Fire-Bellied Toads for their little "pond", they like to jump in and let only their eyes and nostrils stick out. I need more duckweed though because I forgot to put conditioner when doing a water change and it killed off all the duck weed except for 10-15 leaflets.
Doesn't algae count? I mean, I can grow all sorts of algae on my own but I've had some come in as hitch hikers that I can't get rid of!
Heh, yeah, I guess I forgot that one. I've actually gotten some very interesting and attractive algaes with some of my plants (Hydrodictyon, Cladophora, Spirogyra, etc.), but of course they never last long.
