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02-28-2007, 07:31 PM
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I sold my CBB because it was nipping my clam terribly. Then I ended up selling the clam to the same person person. The CBB never bothered it there. Go figure.
I'm about to try another CBB and have a clam. I'm prepared to sell the clam if necessary however, but may try the manilla feeding route.
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02-28-2007, 08:15 PM
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I have a CBB in with 5 clams at the moment. There don't seem to be issues .... yet. I did have a moment on the weekend when I put in a new derasa where he seemed to sample the mantle, but I gave him an oyster to work on instead and he's left the clam alone since then.
But, it's something I watch for. I just basically don't trust the CBB completely as he eats nothing except for frozen foods (mysis or brine) or live foods (mussel, oyster or clams). He's gotta be hungry (his own fault for being so stubborn but nevertheless it's something I worry about). He wasn't all that great at ridding the tank of aiptasia either. Six months after I got him I found myself still needing to inject a few of the buggers with kalk. He might have gotten some but certainly didn't "rid the tank of them." (Stupid fish. He's lucky he's pretty otherwise I'd have sold him months ago!) Like most things, an element of hit and miss, I guess..
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02-28-2007, 09:23 PM
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FWIW, mine is a smaller CBB (3") and I have clams ranging in size from 2.5" to 14". In all fairness he hasn't been a problem to the clams, and that incident with the new clam may just have been him "investigating" the new arrival (since all the other clams were in the tank long before he ever was).
But the main worry of mine, really, is his choice of foods. He's a hard fish to feed. Feeding mysis is easy enough but too much of it every day is hard on the bioload. I crashed my tank this way, so now I only feed mysis about once a week. So if you can find one that eats pellets and/or flakes, that would be golden. Doug told me about the trick of feeding grocery store clams and that's basically what I do to offer this fish something to eat. My guess is that because the clams are cold water creatures in warm water, they're somewhat stressed and thus smell more like food than a healthy ornamental tridacnid clam would. However I'm willing to bet that if a tridacnid clam were to get sick or injured (and would thus start smelling more like "food" instead "tankmate to leave alone") that the tables would turn fairly quickly.
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