New flame scallop from SWF

[sammystingray]

JoeMack........excellent point! My belief was more along the lines of 3-4 years, but I'm not sure.
Nudis are another great example of things dying, and people wondering why, but many have very very short lifespans anyway...say 6 months or less healthy in nature. I think there's one that only lives a month or so.
I doubt anyone wants to starve ANYTHING, and reduce their life knowingly at all, so perhaps someone may know how to actually figure an age on scallops?
Even the "experts" that I have read articles from that believe age plays a role, still believe that scallops starve in tanks, but they think that some deaths may be old age. I don't think any of the more respected authors and hobbiests believe the mass scallop deaths are anything other than a big plate of starvation....with a side of old age.
:happy:

 

[sammystingray]

boadyboom, back when I kept them, I don't remember a problem with cleaner crews if the scallop was healthy, but there are fish that will eat them.
But I of course did not have every single member possible of a cleaner crew in my tank, so there may be some......maybe someone else has info. My tip.....stick with scarlet reef hermits, or don't have hermits at all.

 

[sweetdawn]

one of the lfs i got to had a flame scallop that got eaten by a small crab but she didnt know what kind of crab it was it was really small. she put it in a container and it is still there hiding in a piece of live rock.

 

[boadyboom]

hey thanks for that info=== all i have is bout 10 hermit crabs-- the lfs didnt know whyte type just that they were hermits-- some have black and white striped legs and some have red legs