New Addition.

[rkl303]

Found this guy for $30 at the LFS.

I believe hes a Crocea thats about 2.5" across so I guess that means phyto feeding for me.

The camera used for the picture is a Canon SD300

I have a question though. Do you think someone got hungry for clams and decided to take a bite off of him? In the picture on the left side there seems to be a unnautual transition from colorful rim to white flesh to colorful rim.

 

[fishieness]

i was jsut wondering about that...... im looking into getting a clam, so i am by no means an expert, but i believe that they rarely recover from tears in the mantel.... am i correct?

 

[mbbuna]

yes its a Crocea. from just looking at the pic i cant tell if it torn or just curled up, but it should be fine. some of the good importers/exporters do tissue samples so who knows it could be from that

 

[rkl303]

It's not curled up at that spot unfortunately but he seems happy...although I should do the rock under the sand but I cant find any rocks that are thin enough for my clam. Is there any reason they like the rock under teh sand thing? Security maybe???

 

[mbbuna]

in the wild they are found up in the reef. they grab the reef with there byssal threads, and hold there selves down to protect there byssal opening