Need Clam Advice

sjnovakovich · Oct 24, 2012

A few weeks back at a frag swap I picked up a beauty of a clam. It was a 21/2 inch blue teardrop crocea. Got it acclimated and into my tank. It was doing fantastic for 3 days. Fourth day, I woke up to see it being eaten by a whelk, which I thought was a nasarrius snail when I got it. Needless to say, my clam is no more and the whelk is looking for a new home. I desperately want a clam in that tank so I want to be fairly sure I have nothing else that will munch on a clam. My inhabitants include a large mystery snail, several chitons, nerite, cerith, and astrea snails. There are also 4 or 5 blue legged hermits. Are any of these clam predators?
Thanks!

ritter6788 · Oct 24, 2012

IME you probably have more than one whelk. They reproduce in tanks. I pull them out of my tank all the time but I've never had one go after my clams yet. They do take out snails though.

What is the large mystery snail? Do you have a pic?

sjnovakovich · Oct 24, 2012

Sorry, no pics of the mystery snail. I have several caves and he is very reclusive.

sjnovakovich · Oct 24, 2012

ritter6788 said:
IME you probably have more than one whelk. They reproduce in tanks. I pull them out of my tank all the time but I've never had one go after my clams yet. They do take out snails though.

What is the large mystery snail? Do you have a pic?

So that's where my snails have been disappearing to.

sjnovakovich · Oct 24, 2012

sjnovakovich said:
A few weeks back at a frag swap I picked up a beauty of a clam. It was a 21/2 inch blue teardrop crocea. Got it acclimated and into my tank. It was doing fantastic for 3 days. Fourth day, I woke up to see it being eaten by a whelk, which I thought was a nasarrius snail when I got it. Needless to say, my clam is no more and the whelk is looking for a new home. I desperately want a clam in that tank so I want to be fairly sure I have nothing else that will munch on a clam. My inhabitants include a large mystery snail, several chitons, nerite, cerith, and astrea snails. There are also 4 or 5 blue legged hermits. Are any of these clam predators?
Thanks!

I also have a coral banded shrimp.