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candycane
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Originally Posted by Kevin34
http:///forum/post/2703890
keeping a copperband butterfly and a maxima clam?
Copperbands attack invertebrates (mainly Aiptasia and Tube worms when they are smaller). As the fish gets larger, it's needs will get larger. I have seen maybe 5% of them when they get to around 4-5 inches (if they last that long) that will NOT pick at clam mantles.
http:///forum/post/2703890
keeping a copperband butterfly and a maxima clam?
Copperbands attack invertebrates (mainly Aiptasia and Tube worms when they are smaller). As the fish gets larger, it's needs will get larger. I have seen maybe 5% of them when they get to around 4-5 inches (if they last that long) that will NOT pick at clam mantles.
kevin34
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Originally Posted by candycane
http:///forum/post/2703994
Copperbands attack invertebrates (mainly Aiptasia and Tube worms when they are smaller). As the fish gets larger, it's needs will get larger. I have seen maybe 5% of them when they get to around 4-5 inches (if they last that long) that will NOT pick at clam mantles.
could that kill the clam?
http:///forum/post/2703994
Copperbands attack invertebrates (mainly Aiptasia and Tube worms when they are smaller). As the fish gets larger, it's needs will get larger. I have seen maybe 5% of them when they get to around 4-5 inches (if they last that long) that will NOT pick at clam mantles.
could that kill the clam?
candycane
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What, eating it's mantle? Yes. A clams partial means of survival is what the Zooxanthellae feed the clam. If the clam starts running out of area to house Zooxanthellae - it can cause the clam to bleach out, not feed, not get nutrients, get stressed, just ALL KINDS of stuff. Think of it's mantle as like a solar energy panel that runs an entire house. What happens if you start to break chunks of it off?
