Arca Zebra/Turkey Wing Clam

[jhuntstl]

I got one with a couple lbs of Florida aquacultered live rock I ordered. I removed it from the original rock it came on. It was attached mantle down if I remember correctly. It lived in a 5g bucket for about 10 days until I was ready to move everything to the main display. It's been in the display since last weekend.

Had it on the sand for a bit, but recently perched it up on a rock. Came home today and found it upside down, attached to the rock. While I'd love to have a better view of this specimen... if this is what it wants, I won't fight it. Just looking for some insight from anyone with experience! I've had good luck keeping other bivalves happy in my tank, so I'm hoping to keep this one around too.

 

[Udest]

It should be good if you feed the corals , I have some smaller bivalves on the underside of some rocks but they're much smaller.

 

[jhuntstl]

It should be good if you feed the corals , I have some smaller bivalves on the underside of some rocks but they're much smaller.

Thanks for the response, but I'm not so worried about nutrition. It's been responsive to daily phyto and I feed the coral twice a week.

I'm more curious about it being, what I perceive as, upside down. I went to move it, and it's already pretty snugly attached. I couldn't tell you if it got this way on it's own. My high flow could have knocked it over or maybe it was a member of the CUC.

 

[Udest]

From what photos I could find it looks like they generally wedge themselves into crevices maybe that's what it's trying to do?

 

[jhuntstl]

From what photos I could find it looks like they generally wedge themselves into crevices maybe that's what it's trying to do?

Very well may be the case. Might not be a fan of all the light?