All my clams are perfectly healthy. I have one for 3 years already.
They have to be very healthy to recover from such nocturnal attacks.
They do recover, but I can see the bite marks on the edges of the clams mantle. I was seing this type of dammage and was wondering where it was coming from since I don't have any fish that are picking at them. Got my answer when watching at night a bunch of those amphipods chewing on the clam. If is very easy to see what they are doing, you can actually see them bite the mantle with their little mouth.
And spare me the lines "clams is probably sick and why the pods are after it" because they are super healthy. Well extended during the day, no gaping, no pinched mantle, great colors.
an eggcrate box? are you suggesting that I trap a wrass along with the clams? not sure what you are saying here but anyway there is no way to put a eggcrate in there because the clams are on a plate in midlevel.
Like I said, all the wrasses, any type that I know of, are sound asleep and burrow in the sand at night, while the amphipods are out having fun. now what? I used to have a checkerboard wrasse and he was eating them yeah...but I had to lift rocks for him to catch them otherwise he would be sleeping at night and the pods were safe during the day, hiding.
I have to mention that I have totoka liverock in my tank. There are tons and tons of places where amphipods can hide in there. It's not a smooth rock but very porous with tons of holes to hide in. I even checked today and saw a few amphipods hiding in the shell asperity of my maxima clam
Quote:
Originally Posted by phi delt reefer
long story short... I wonder if your clam or palys were on their way out. Though you didnt state anything along those lines so I'll assume no. A yellow coris wrasse ($10) will decimate any type of pod. I believe they come in green too. Maybe put an eggcrate box around the clam with the wrasse in it so he concentrates on that area?
|