shrimponclam

[Gator]

i came home to my 1 1/2 inch clam upside down and my fire shrimp eating it. what should i do. Will this shrimp attack my other clams?

[dan]

that sounds like a high dollar lunch. as for me i don't know about shrimp

[malofish]

thats a first in my book!!! I wonder if the shrimp flipped it or something else dahn dahn DAHN!!! reashearch any other tank mates

[Gator]

my wrasse flips it overr for the shrimp, the shrimp is also eating from the top he has never touched anything else

[malofish]

what kind of wrasse, is the shrimp eating the mantle of the clam??

[TexasState]

What have you been feeding for your clam?

[Gator]

yes the shrimp ate the mantle and whatever else it could reach from the top. THe wrasse is a twin spot that i need to catch. I already found a home for the wrasse, i knew it was going to grow but when i cycled my rock i wnated something to help clean any unwanted hitchhikers

[dan]

do you have any extra hitchhikers you do'nt want? put them in my fuge. yaaaaaa!

[Gator]

i think your fuge has every type of animal you could want, i cant wait to get some sand from yopu

[Tim Marvin]

I think if you keep dumping all those hitchhikers in the refugium you won't have any sand critters. Be careful about what you just dump in there. It is supposed to be a refuge for life not a killing field.

[Gator]

i was talking aboy dans pods, some of them are as big as fish. he has alot of life in his fuge, i put the twinspot in for flat worms i did not have them but i wanted to make sure. it is time to take him out though

[Tim Marvin]

No, I'm sure Dan already knows, but just a warning. My refugiums don't have anything in them except a few snails. They are loaded with mysid, pods, micro-stars, worms, and who knows what else. I avoid putting in shrimp, crabs, larger stars, cucumbers, and stuff like that as they prey upon the micro organisms.

[captexas]

I think most shrimp (ornamental) are just scavengers and I would seriously doubt that the shrimp is what killed the clam. My clam simply closes when one of my cleaner shrimp come scampering across it at feeding time. Definatley would look at the wrasse as a possible killer. May not be eating it now, but probably nipped at the clam enough to kill it so all the other scavengers in the tank could then feast on it.

[Jimnorris]

I know for a fact there are shrimp that will eat clams. A sharon shrimp is one I believe it is also called a camel shrimp. I also know that a twinspot wrasse will eat just about anything (clam too).
Jim