clams and pyrams

[sgolden]

i lost my clam in a crash in july...prior to that time i hadn't noticed anything wrong with my clam...but now i've found these...pyrams? and are there any "better" natural predators of these??

 

[mbbuna]

the best way to get rid of them is for you to remove them. lots of people will say that wrasses will get rid of them .but wrasses sleep at night, pyrams feed at night

 

[sgolden]

basically i have been removing them by hand off of my astreas every other day or so...will it ever stop? im concerned about the wrong wrasse ...i had a green one who loved to eat my snails...now i have this one ...in a seperate tank

 

[mbbuna]

you need to keep removing them by hand. that is by far the best way. if you were a wrasse,what would you want to eat.a snail in a hard shell,or a nice soft juice pod. when I had pyrams my 6-line wrasse wouldn't touch them. im not saying that they wont eat them,but if you want to get rid of them,YOU need to do it

 

[sgolden]

today i took the astreas and put them in the tank with the wrasse,i put the snails on their side and mister wrasse ate the pyrams,,but he also stressed the astreas enough that they wont come out