Clams (Maxima) and Angel FIsh

[Pran]

HI All,

I have an emperor angel now, adult, and it ate my corccea clam, but flipping it upside down and eating it from the back, like the white stuff and then the whole clams blue stuff...

I then took away my other 3 corccea and my 7 inch blue maxima clam.

I am planning to get the blue face angel, personifier angel, and scribble angel, this weekend, already paid going to pick it up.

So my question is, did any of ur angels like this ate your maxima clams?

Please advice
thanks
Pran

 

[natebedwell06]

angels love clams, i hope your planning on an upgrade soon, considering your tank will not hold those angels long term, those angels all need a tank a lot bigger than yours, if its the 150 signature

 

[rfalvey89]

I wouldn't put any angelfish with ANY clam. I learned the hard way.

 

[Pran]

I wouldn't put any angelfish with ANY clam. I learned the hard way.

really...can you please tell me what way is was?

this what I see...please correct me

if the clam is attached to the rock, then the fish won't eat it, if the clam is small and on the sand bed, then the fish knock it upside down, and eat the back white stuff and from there eat the blue stuff too
bc when it goes to eat from the top, like the blue part, the clam closes so it can't

however I think Maxima is different kind the angels won't eat it???

thx

 

[Pran]

angels love clams, i hope your planning on an upgrade soon, considering your tank will not hold those angels long term, those angels all need a tank a lot bigger than yours, if its the 150 signature

yes...I am just buying small ones, but I am going for 8 feet soon

so does it eat maxima too?

I had the emp for 3 days and it didn't touch maxima yet, only corccea

thx

 

[nanoreefer1000]

I wouldn't put any angelfish with ANY clam. I learned the hard way.

Genicanthus Genicanthus Genicanthus :clown:

 

[rnscross]

Genicanthus Genicanthus Genicanthus :clown:

if you do a search on here you might be surprised by that statement, not as safe as everyone thinks.

Its all about opportunity, a hungry angel will eat clams. A full angel is less likely to. And I stress the word "less". I have kept a majestic and scribbled short term with maxima clams, but anectdotally they seem to go for them once mature.

 

[alton]

I bought a juvenile imp and it grew up with a clam. And then after several years as an adult it decided to start picking at it. Try to figure that one out.

 

[namxas]

If the angels don't nip the clam's mantle outright, they will pick at its mucous layer and stress it to death. It doesn't matter what species, or whether or not they're in the rockwork.

 

[Pran]

If the angels don't nip the clam's mantle outright, they will pick at its mucous layer and stress it to death. It doesn't matter what species, or whether or not they're in the rockwork.

oh ok thank you so much

 

[Pran]

I bought a juvenile imp and it grew up with a clam. And then after several years as an adult it decided to start picking at it. Try to figure that one out.

oh interesting...was it a maxima?