In [1], it is shown that the Rabinovich-Fabrikant (RF) system admits self-excited and hidden chaotic attractors. In this paper, we further show that the RF system also admits a pair of symmetric transient hidden chaotic attractors. We reveal more extremely rich dynamics of this system, such as a new kind of "virtual saddles".Keywords Hidden transient chaotic attractor; Hidden attractor; Self-excited attractor; Rabinovich-Fabrikant system 1 Introduction Nowadays, the notion of self-excited and hidden attractor introduced by Leonov and Kuznetsov [2,3,4], has become a common subject (see e.g. [5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16]). The main characteristic of hidden attractors is that their basins of attraction do not intersect with arbitrary small neighborhood of any equilibrium point, while a basin of attraction of a self-excited attractor is associated with some unstable equilibrium. In this context, stationary points are less important for finding hidden attractors than for finding self-excited attractors. Self-excited attractors can be localized (excited) by standard computational procedures, by starting from a point in some neighborhood of an unstable equilibrium, while for localization of hidden attractors it is necessary to develop special numerical procedures. Some well-known classical chaotic and regular attractors (such as Lorenz 1 , Chen, Rösler, van der Pol, some Sprott systems, etc.) are self-excited attractors, 1 The possible existence in the Lorenz of a hidden chaotic attractor in the Lorenz system is an open problem [4].