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Red Hot Spender
This is the other shelled hitchhiker I bought for a buck a WHILE back. The LFS people said that this guy had been in the FOWLR tank for a long time and had no ID on it.
This guy also lived in my fuge/sump for a while. Unless its eating the steaks and burgers I don't know about, it's a detritivore. It appears uninterested in algae and fresh & wandering fish food. It just sits in a single place for 5-14 days straight, then relocates to another far place in the tank. I've once seen it in motion and IT MOVES FAST! If I recall correctly, ~2 inch/second! It's not a hermit crab in a nice shell because it holds onto substrate extremely well when I prod it with my fingers and on occasion, it'll sit on the side of the tank when it suits itself. So therefore I've seen its foot.
When searching for its diet on the internet, the only thing I can find is that it's a bivalve predator, by means of excavating a hole along the margin of the closed valve.
I've had this little guy for over 4 months, by the way. I haven't had ornamental bivalves during this time either.
Here's an ID I made from an ancient book, Daniel Knop Giant Clams - A Comprehensive Guide to the Identification and care of Tridacnid Clams:
It's the Chicoreus Ramosus, on the far right:
Its at the 11 o'clock position, in relation to the acro frag:
In my opinion, going to the LFS can be refreshing when stuff like this is occasionally appears out of the woodwork.
Thanks for reading!
This guy also lived in my fuge/sump for a while. Unless its eating the steaks and burgers I don't know about, it's a detritivore. It appears uninterested in algae and fresh & wandering fish food. It just sits in a single place for 5-14 days straight, then relocates to another far place in the tank. I've once seen it in motion and IT MOVES FAST! If I recall correctly, ~2 inch/second! It's not a hermit crab in a nice shell because it holds onto substrate extremely well when I prod it with my fingers and on occasion, it'll sit on the side of the tank when it suits itself. So therefore I've seen its foot.
When searching for its diet on the internet, the only thing I can find is that it's a bivalve predator, by means of excavating a hole along the margin of the closed valve.
I've had this little guy for over 4 months, by the way. I haven't had ornamental bivalves during this time either.
Here's an ID I made from an ancient book, Daniel Knop Giant Clams - A Comprehensive Guide to the Identification and care of Tridacnid Clams:
It's the Chicoreus Ramosus, on the far right:
Its at the 11 o'clock position, in relation to the acro frag:
In my opinion, going to the LFS can be refreshing when stuff like this is occasionally appears out of the woodwork.
Thanks for reading!
