Yet Another Clam Question??????

[Great Reefer Man]

I have about a 4" derasa clam. He's on the substrate. When I first got him, he opened way up and his mantle spread out WELL past his shell. Lately he hasnt been expanding as much. I thouoght it may have been the snails on him. Well anyways...I was watching the tank a couple days ago and I noticed that my yellow tang would swim over the top of the clam which inturn would make the clam kinda draw in. The tang would hover a minute then take off back over to the other side of the tank. About 5 minutes later, as the clam was starting to expand back over it's shell, along comes the tang and the clam draws back in. This has been happening continusly!!!!! What should I do short of pulling out the tang? Would placing the clam up on the rocks be ok? Maybe the tang wouldnt bother it if it weren't on the sandbed. I really dont want to be w/o the clam or the tang. "cant we all just get along"!!!!! Any help would be greatly appriciated!

Dennis

[skipm]

Putting the clam upon the rocks is not an option, he will move back down by opening and closing his shell until hes back on the substrate. As far as I know there is also nothing that you can do to prevent the tang from bothering the clam, usually once this kind of behavior starts the only way to calm the waters is to remove one or the other. Skip

[Great Reefer Man]

Well that is exactly what I didn't wanna hear [img]/ubb/frown.gif[/img].

Well, I have moved it over for the time being to see if the tang will leave it alone. You never know!

Thankyou,
Dennis