watch out for fish

[skimmerdude]

I am new to clams, but have reasonable experience with salt water/reefs . . .

I had a clam that was really not doing well and I had fish that I thought were all reef safe. I checked my water and I have good lighting and everything was in check (I will spare you all the details, but everything really was in check).

Then I saw my bi-color blenny nip at the clam, it would only do it once or twice daily . . . but that was enough. Even though I have some experience, I made a mistake with the blenny.

Now the blenny is gone (off to a different home, but I feel guilty as I think his new home has a very very careless and under skilled reefer at the wheel), and the clam is super happy.

Moral of the story, if you think it might be a fish, it might be a fish ****ing off your clam. One of them had to go.

 

[WayneY]

Yeah I've had the same thing happen to me once. I dont know if they think the pattern on the mantle is algae or what.

 

[a4twenty]

some blennies are ok but the bicolor blennies are definitely no to be trusted with clams.

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11779415#post11779415 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by WayneY
Yeah I've had the same thing happen to me once. I dont know if they think the pattern on the mantle is algae or what.

it is algae

 

[skimmerdude]

I definitely learn't the hard way about bi-colours and clams. Too bad, the bi-colour is definitely one of my favourite fish.

At least the my crocea is much happier.

I just changed my lighting around, now I have a 20k bulb, so I hope that does not cause any problems with the clam.

 

[WayneY]

My bad twenty. Just not the type you want them to eat. Symbiotic(?) algae is not what them little boogers are supposed to munch on

 

[johnnybravo234]

Watch out for clownfish too. My ocellaris percieved my squamosa as a threat to his xenia colony and tore him up bad.