Clam death.

[reefwars]

Originally Posted by asylumdown

FWIW, I've had my clam for nearly 4 years, first as a teeny tiny little baby clam in a 4 gallon pico, then as one of the first inverts in my big tank.

By weight, I'd say half the biomass in my tank is bristle worm. My clam is happy as a, well, clam.

Yeah I have a squammie now for a few years and it's been in a couple systems all of which have bristle worms and its still going strong .I'm sure they love a dying meal but they don't seem to do any harm to a healthy one.....not the typical worms I have anyways

[asylumdown]

I suppose I should have caveated that statement. To my untrained eyes it looks like I have two different species of bristle worm in my tank. I even triggered a mass spawning of them cleaning the tank last weekend (not sure what I did but holy crap was it impressive). There's dozens of other species of 'bristle worm', so what might be true for the kinds in my tank might not be true of another species someone might have brought home on their rocks. Maybe there's a kind that likes to munch clams and I've just been lucky so far.

[Skim]

I was just saying what happened to my Clams and I had them for quite a while and one day noticed one was opening and closing a lot and I could inside and there was Bristle worms inside, when I pick it up there was bunch of little ones on the bottom. After that one died it was not long before the other 2 went the same way. If they ever get the taste look out I guess its just like with Angles.