Look What I Found When I Got Home
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MeridiaRose
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That really sucks, sorry to hear it. [emoji22]
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dale
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well that sucks
So here is my live stock list ...I have only a couple hermit crabs.... a bunch of Cerith snails... nassari snails...a bunch of baby turbos... a bunch of orange Nudi's. ... two clowns... 3 pj cardinals. ... one springeri damsel. He's been in there at least a month I think and none of my other livestock has bothered it.the clam was picked completely clean. No flesh anywhere. It was fine this morning. Oh and I forgot a peppermint shrimp and a few spiny star snails and a fire fish
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heath
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oh Nathan, that really sucks big time.. I had the same thing happen to me.. I thought maybe it was my water quality but I have about the same cuc so now I am wondering...
Sorry to hear about the loss. How was the clam doing over the last week? With the snails and hermits you have i wouldn't doubt if the clam just naturally died (small clams are harder to care for) and your snails/ hermits took care of the flesh. A good clean up crew can take care of something like that in a matter of hours if it started to decay.
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It's been great.... fully open and healthy looking.... even this morning. ... water quality has been normal... so I'm at a loss... I don't think I'll bother to get another clam .... the clam was about 2.5 inchs. I waited months to find that one....lol
Chef G
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that sucks, check your water params? maybe something went off and cause the clam to die?
Yeah I'm a little confused. ..
Hong
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chrisstevens
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None of what you listed would have killed your clam. My guess is it just died and then the hermits took care of the rest. Sorry for your loss.
Bayinaung
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Hi sorry to hear this. BUT i'm not surprised. I had a gorgeous Maxima clam once. for a few weeks nothing happened. and then one night I noticed a hermit on it, clipping it. I got in and moved it away. it got chewed up a bit by hermit and I was hoping it would recover. died the next day. Ever since then, I had been warning people about hermit crabs. they turn predator on soft corals shrooms, anemones and clams from time to time. yes one ate a flame nem too. since then, no more crabs in my tanks. snails will toss up your frags. and when they spawn, the whole tank gets milky. and there goes your day trying to do water change.
the only CUC I will use are the tiny spider starfish that usually comes as hitch hikers.
the only CUC I will use are the tiny spider starfish that usually comes as hitch hikers.
Bayinaung
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peppermint shrimp wont do much. but I had a pistol shrimp that ate a nem. and I had one that was hoarding macroalgae under rocks. yeah HOARDING. So pistol shrimps are out for me. too.
Joshbrookkate
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Hong, that was a great article on clams. Thanks for posting......
LIttle Reef Keeper
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Post a pic of your nassarius snail, theyre often whelks that eat clams and other snails.
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Hong
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Hong
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Hi Nathan,
I'm curious. How long did you have the clam for? Been thinking about getting a clam myself for a while.
I'm curious. How long did you have the clam for? Been thinking about getting a clam myself for a while.