amphipods eating clam ?

[phi delt reefer]

last night I had an issue with pods eating two heads of a new paly frag i got. Some extensive googling led me to believe something else was killing the palys and the pods were just consuming the dead tissue. I pulled the palys out and noticed some giant red flat worm"-ish" things latched onto the two remaining heads.

They survived a REVIVE and fresh water dip so i yanked em off with some tweezers and there some vicious bite marks were they were sitting on the palys.

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?