Maxima loss

[MIKE NY]

I had a beautiful 4" electric blue maxima since October. It was doing great as of yesterday. It was fully expanded and embeded into a rock ledge. This morning a notice it was gone with just the foot remaining and an empty shell lying on the sandbed next to my large squamosa. I have two large serpants which I have had for years without any problems because I keep them fed. Could it be possible that it was eaten? :mad2: I have a copperband butterfly which I have had just as long without any problems. It never picked at any of the clams before. The water parameters haven't changed and everything else are fine. I'm thinking it's a serpant because it would be the only thing strong enough to rip it off the rock like that or could it have died overnight and everything just cleaned up what was left.

Sorry I have to vent alittle.
TIA
Mike

 

[crimson156]

did u feed the clam?

 

[Scuba Dog]

clams are funny they can look great and healthy when there are slowly starving to death, then one day there gone...

1. did you feed live photoplankton.
2. what were your water numbers.
3. preditation.

and thats a bummer sorry I didnt have any unique ideas to offer...

 

[MIKE NY]

thanks guys, yea I fed the tank a couple of times a week with DT's and the clam even had about 1/4" of new growth.

 

[crimson156]

wierd

 

[rain8868]

Hi... I had the exact same thing happen...although it survived about a month...I'm not sure what happened either...it was fully open yesterday and then today it's almost completely gone. I did see a wrasse that was harrassing it, but I've since isolated it, but the damage may have been done.