Crocea vs LTA

[Gabby]

Three times now my 5" crocea has leapt off its high perch, still attached to its small base rock and landed in my LTA. The first two times this happened, I saw it happen and was able to quickly remove the clam from the anemone with no ill effects to the clam. This past Friday some time during the night, the clam dove off the perch again and landed in the anemone. I found it underneath the anemone early Saturday morning just before we left for a weekend away. Hoping for the best I put it back on it's perch and we left.

We arrived home late Monday afternoon and the clam still wasn't looking so great. It is barely extending it's mantle, but does respond to light and touch.

Is this clam going to pull through? I have no idea how long it had been sitting underneath the anemone, but obviously it was long enough for the anemone to cause some trauma to the crocea.

 

[Gabby]

Here's a pic which shows the clam's barely extended mantle.

 

[Typhon]

I know clams are normally unaffect by the touch of corals, but anemones maybe another story.

 

[Charlie Davidson]

All of my clams like it best on the sand bed, they jump off any rocks I set them on. so I just let them do their thing as they say with chinese cookies---------- in bed. No one can say for sure if clam will make it (from Pic)- but yours looks like it will to me.