Clam Killers

[stang66200]

:notsure:
A friend of mine has a well established 30 gallon reef tank set up. He has had two clams die mysterously. They look great when you put them in . . . then night falls and when you get up in the morning something has eaten them. What could it be?
:help:

 

[reefer123]

what kind of fish and inverts does it have in the tank?

 

[stang66200]

Fish
Ocellaris Clown
Six line wrasse
Royal Gramma
Diamond Goby
Yellow Watchman goby
Highfin Goby
Rainford Goby
Corals
4 Brain Corals
Green Bubble Tip Anemone
Leather Coral
Button Anemones
Stat Polyps
Orange Zoos
Various Shrooms
Candy Cane Coral
Inverts
2 cleaner shrimp
2 peppermint shrimp
Hermits
Emerald Crabs
Turbo Snails
Feathers Dusters
Coco Worm
Brittle Star

 

[keonia]

Are you talking about the cleaner clams? ??
you say they die -- do you see the shell remnants? or have the clams burry themselves?
You seem to have a lot of inhabitants ---
May want to get the water parameters from your friend.. Possibility that the clams didn't make it due to the number of residents in the tank and got eaten up after it died?

 

[bang guy]

Originally Posted by stang66200
then night falls and when you get up in the morning something has eaten them. What could it be?
Clams can look OK right up to the hour they die. Once they die the cleanup crew quickly does it's job on what's left.