Clam kills wrasse!!! What the heck!!!!!

[saltwaterinbrooklyn]

No fish in that tank will go near any of the other clams , that's for sure

wrong , as soon as the clam was killed open!! my yellow coris wrasse was all up in the clam !!! if it had another bit of life in it , the clam would of killed him too!!!! im afraid of the clams now!!

 

[duke62]

yeah the yellow tank was going for the clam because iof the smell of death. If it wasnt dead the tang wouldnt have went for it

 

[TaylorJane]

happy thanksgiving !

 

[bklynreef]

How much for the rest of the clams you say?

 

[d5332]

Hope you vented plenty and decided not to start selling stuff.

This hobby can be expensive but do you blame the clam???? survival of the fittest

 

[kenconnect]

I think the wrasse was trying to pick up food or something from inside the clam and doing so triggered the clam's natural reaction to close up, which caught the fish by the head. IMO the fish asked for it lol, but if he lives then it will be a lesson well learned.

+1 .. Dude u shouldn't have tried to open the clam it would have open on its own and the fish was a goner anyway ... So u lost a $35 fish and a $45 clam.. Should have let nature tak it's place..lol sorry 4 ur loss .. But next time just leave ur hammer hands out of the tank..

 

[saltwaterinbrooklyn]

why i gotta have hammer hands!!!! this is a first time event in my saltwater life lol this cant in any way be a common occurance!!! i got two more clams and im affraid for my lil fishes lives lol

 

[saltwaterinbrooklyn]

The smaller one isn't such a threat but this bigger shelled assassin can kill any of the fish in my tank with one thunder clap!!!! Lol what a nightmare , a mantle that can dismantle.

 

[reefs4life]

sorry for your loss, its pretty bizarre but cool at the same time.

If you're afraid then just get rid of the clam and buy smaller one, seen a bunch of 2" clams for a reasonable price plus selling the big one would get you more than enough to buy it. Kinda just saying that cuz I'd be interested in the one in the second pic lol

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[beastium]

sucks dude. Same excact thing happen to a file fish i had. Just thought the file fish wanted a bite of the clam and paid with it's life.

Yea, probably got a piece of it, got yanked & clammed up on like a trap..=\ my condolences. Lol assassin

 

[xxxAngeloxxx]

Wow Eddie sorry for the lost buddy

 

[Aqua Pro Builder]

+1 .. Dude u shouldn't have tried to open the clam it would have open on its own and the fish was a goner anyway ... So u lost a $35 fish and a $45 clam.. Should have let nature tak it's place..lol sorry 4 ur loss .. But next time just leave ur hammer hands out of the tank..

From my experience in a similar but slightly different case, the two will engage in a deadlock. Years back, my I lost a Copperband ButterFly to a Electric Flame Scallop due to the dead lock, I was surprise to find the scallop actually was able to to pull the CBB into the and leaving the tail for to discover the tragedy.