My 2" ORA ultra maxima keeps moving!

[reefkeeper1]

My 2" ORA ultra maxima keeps moving around my sandbed - not by itself , but because large snails and my rabbitfish keep disturbing it to get the algae growing on the shell. How do I stabilize it so that the snails or fish won't move it around? Even if I dremel a perfect hollow for it, the rabbitfish can still move the clam out of the hollow with its big mouth. I have two croceas doing fine in the tank because they've bonded to some larger pieces of live rock.

 

[Ti]

If it doesn't work out, I'm in Sunnyvale, and I'd love to give it a happy home. =)

 

[Reef'in Colorado]

You could try setting it down on your substrate on top of a shell or something else it can attach to. Then cut the bottom out of a clear plastic cup and set it around the clam and shell so that your fish can't really get to it. HTH - Tony

 

[derrikd]

well try to get the alge off his shell, use a tooth brush or some thing like that they should lose intrest then

 

[jda]

You can wipe kalk paste on the shell to kill the algae. Be careful not to get any onto the flesh of the clam.

Put it on a rock and put a strawberry basket over it until it can attach.

 

[reefkeeper1]

Put it on a rock and put a strawberry basket over it until it can attach.

That's a great idea. I also remembered I have some cercona cellpore balls in a bucket that will be easy to dremel in order to make a little hollow for the clam.