Good evening! I got a derasa clam in my sps tank on Saturday, looks good and healthy. Has been over a month at dealers tank and very responsive. I currently have no inverts other than corals on that tank. There is only 1 tiny acro crab on an acro far away from the clam but he never leaves his coral. I have a purple tang, a pajama cardinal, and a black saddleback clown fish. This a 90 gallon tank, with MH lighting. bare bottom So I placed the clam on a rock. My question is can I have any shrimp, starfish, things like that with the clam in there?? I only have those 3 fish, however right now there are not even in the tank, they are still in quarantine since I had an ich epidemic and had to treat with copper in hospital tank. What other fish can I have in there? I was thinking about adding a mandaring dragonet or a 6-line wrasse. Maybe a coral banded shrimp or a skunk cleaner shrimp? Any suggestions? I have heard there are gobbies that like to perch on clams, is this a relationship that is mutually beneficial or will it irritate the clam?? Thanks and sorry for all the questions. Tank parameters are favorable for sps.
first clam!
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For the seastar, avoid non reef-safe ones like chocolat chips seastar and others carnivorous. Shrimp are generally OK, but I'll go with the skunk instead of the coral banded. For the fish, avoid butterflies fish, angelfish, triggerfish and some kind of wrass. Mandarin dragonnet is ok and 6-line wrasse too(six line can help to control pyramid snail, a clam predator) For the goby, sure it will irritate the clam...and if your clam is closed, zooxantles in is mantle can work properly, due to a lack of light...
Psitt! Are you talking french? (La petite roche?;-))
Psitt! Are you talking french? (La petite roche?;-))
Great, Thanks for the info. I had another question if you guys don't mind. I came home last night and the clam had weakly attached to a spot I was only having in temporarily, so i gently removed it and it kept falling eveywhere else I placed it. So I grabed a tupperware dish and filled it with aragonite and a flat rock underneath and placed the clam properly on the sand very close to the rock, was this thinking logical in getting the clam to attach to the rock by being properly placed through the sand? It is sitting on the bottom of my tank acclimating to the halides since it had T5 lighting at the LFS. Do you think it is too stressed out from all the handling in the last couple days? Not so much handling, but picking it up since it kept falling off. Thanks.
Just tryin to do a good job, hard to place on a bare botton tank with a lot of flow
PiXieCath I live in Little Rock, AR, and one of the conference rooms is named La Petite Roche, since this states was part of the Louisianna purchase back when it belong to Le France
It just wanted it to sound fancy! lol!
Just tryin to do a good job, hard to place on a bare botton tank with a lot of flow
PiXieCath I live in Little Rock, AR, and one of the conference rooms is named La Petite Roche, since this states was part of the Louisianna purchase back when it belong to Le France
It just wanted it to sound fancy! lol!
