Seems perfectly content until I try to put it in the rockwork: then it will move itself back to about the same spot on the sand. It sits in a high light area, and grows...it's added its 4th row of scutes since April, and is brilliant blue. It might have been wild, since it came in with no scutes at all.
I've always secretly felt like a bad clam owner since it has never attached. I move it to dust [scrape algae nearby, every few weeks] and it never takes offense: it just blooms right out to suck in the algae. But never produces a byssal thread, either.
Is there maybe a nutrient it needs that it doesn't have enough of? This is my first shellfish.
I've always secretly felt like a bad clam owner since it has never attached. I move it to dust [scrape algae nearby, every few weeks] and it never takes offense: it just blooms right out to suck in the algae. But never produces a byssal thread, either.
Is there maybe a nutrient it needs that it doesn't have enough of? This is my first shellfish.
