My first clam!

[techigirl78]

I got my first clam yesterday. Here's a picture of it today:
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I'm keeping a close eye on it and watching my fish carefully. It is my first test for my coris venusta who, knock on wood, hasn't caused any issues with my serpent stars or snails to date, so I'm very hopeful. At this point, all the fish seem oblivious to the clam.

 

[The steven liu]

bautiful clam. Best of luck!

 

[Julio]

congrats! nice pattern.

 

[sundance1]

Very nice!Now your hooked!

 

[Lpabsolute]

Looks Good

 

[techigirl78]

My fish gutted my clam

My fish gutted my clam

Well, I knew it was a risk, but my fish killed my clam. I found it on its side last night with almost nothing left in it beyond some of the mantle. This clam was my fish test and it failed.

Now, as I have PCs on my 125 and MH/T5 on my 90 my plan is as follows. Take the 6 small fish, 5 shrimp, and 7 crabs from my 125 and transfer them to holding buckets. Remove the four fish from my 90 and acclimate them to my 125. Then, add the small, clam-safe fish and inverts to the 90. Anyone see problems that a green banded goby, yasa hashe goby, fang blenny, firefish, scotter blenny or rainfords goby could cause to clams? I also want to remove 50 lbs of live rock from my 125 and add it to my 90 to help get more live rock in my 90 and open up some space in my 125.

The problem I also have to deal with is the flatworms in my 125. I don't want to transfer them to the 90, so I'll be ordering some flatworm exit and spending time syphoning out all the flatworms and making sure none are left in the 125 before transfer. In the end, this should be for the best. I can have the low-bioload smaller fish in the 90 which is intended for SPS/clams and add a triggerfish (sargassum/crosshatch) and tang to my 125 with the other 4 fish. Wish me luck. If you see in issues, let me know.

 

[Jeremy Blaze]

A bit of advice, the clam you posted in a Crocea. It is one of the most light demanding of all, and needs very intense metal halides for survival.

It is also known as a boring clam, due to its habit of boring into the heads of corals, and rocks. Because of this, it should always be placed on a rock. It has a very large opening in the bottom of its shell, which is easily invaded by brislte worms.

 

[Stephany]

There any way you can siphon out the flatworms and increase the flow instead of flatworm exit?
I've heard many questions of them not *all* gone after that product; but I do know they thrive in high light, low flow tanks.

 

[techigirl78]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6702258#post6702258 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Jeremy Blaze
A bit of advice, the clam you posted in a Crocea. It is one of the most light demanding of all, and needs very intense metal halides for survival.

It is also known as a boring clam, due to its habit of boring into the heads of corals, and rocks. Because of this, it should always be placed on a rock. It has a very large opening in the bottom of its shell, which is easily invaded by brislte worms.

If you notice, it was on a rock. After a week, I planned on moving it up in the tank as well. It was in my 90 with 2X250watt DE MH and 2 T5s. This is sufficient light, correct? I think my fish flipped it over and ate out the insides. He's either going in my 125 or I'm going to get a new 75 to put in the coris wrasse before I try another clam.

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6702411#post6702411 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Stephany
There any way you can siphon out the flatworms and increase the flow instead of flatworm exit?
I've heard many questions of them not *all* gone after that product; but I do know they thrive in high light, low flow tanks.

I've been trying to siphon them out. I have a tunze 6000 and 4 maxi-jet 1200s on my 125 with the flatworms and it is only lit with PCs. I tried syphoning them out everyday for about 3 weeks until I saw none, but they came back fairly quickly. Most threads I read, it seems it may take 2 or 3 times to get rid of them all.

 

[piscivorous]

Which fish did it??

 

[mbbuna]

dont put the fang blenny with the clams

 

[techigirl78]

The coris wrasse and hoeven's both seemed interested in it, but I think the coris was the original culprit. Are midas blennies ok with clams?

 

[mbbuna]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6710591#post6710591 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by techigirl78
The coris wrasse and hoeven's both seemed interested in it, but I think the coris was the original culprit. Are midas blennies ok with clams?

bi-color,midas, fang not good with clams

 

[techigirl78]

Well, then I'll probably have to just forget clams altogether as I have a midas and a fang blenny and I have to keep them seperated.

Guess I'll just stick with corals.

 

[Ti]

nice clam

 

[The steven liu]

GEEEz so complecated just to keep a clam isn't it. I'd just get a six lined wrasse to keep the flat worms in check. Also I think you have way too many gobies for the bottom part of your clam.
All the sand sifting might cause a little more irritation than the clam wants.

 

[techigirl78]

The only one the sifts sand that I see is the pistol and shrimp goby. Even then, they don't do much as they just seem to stick to their den. I was thinking I'd put my hoeven's wrasse and mystery wrasse into my 125 to help with the flatworms. It just means I need to get my small fish and shrimp and things out of the 125. Oh well, we'll see. Time will tell.