Have you been pinched by your clam? Hurt?
Assaulted by clam
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Can't say I've been assaulted by clam. However one time when I was rearranging the rock to make more room for some larger SPS colonies, I stirred up a lot of detritus which settle on my Gigas clam. So I decided to dust it off by waving water on it. While I was waving my hand over the clam, the clam twitched and the edge of the shell opened up my middle finger. It was a pretty severe slice, I used super glue and butterfly bandages to seal it up. I now have a new respect for how sharp the edge of a clam can be. I wish I had a picture of the cut and the red tank it produced.....
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Interesting! I wasn't aware that they could be sharp. You are very fortunate not to have any kind of bacterial infections occur.
Knock on wood! I've been cut so many times in more than 20 years of reefing, and never once have I had an infection of any kind. I know several of my friends haven't been so lucky.
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Wow, you're a dedicated reefer. Glad to hear you've been lucky
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I have been lucky so far but my clam does like to soak me when I move him out of the tank and I swear he knows the perfect time with a perfect aim. He's only about 7" and shoots about 2 feet of water. When I move him I have to make sure the lights are far away or I should say moving him in the tank is fine just if I take him out of the tank its the problem. He's attached to a piece of shelf rock not much bigger than him that has bubble algae on it and that's why I take him out some time to clean off bubble algae.
