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Is this Pinched Mantle?
Is this pinched mantle or is there something eating my T. Crocea's mantle? Could it be possible that the mushroom (bottom left in picture) is extruding its "guts" and stinging the mantle at night? I had some troubles a few months ago with this clam and I was sure that it was pyramid snails, but it turned out that they werent. Here a few pics from the last time that I noticed damage to the mantle. I might note that all of the mantle grew back fine after this episode and looked great until I noticed the new damage today.
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it's not PM, your second guess sounds about right. move him away from the mushroom and post your fish / invert list please.
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- 2 Clownfish that NEVER leave the left side of the tank. The clam is in the center. Inverts: - 1 Peppermint Shrimp - 1 Cleaner Shrimp I have turbo snails too. The tank is 2+ years old and everything else in the tank is thriving.
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well that didn't help
just to be sure i'm seeing it, the mantle is actually missing? did you move it away from the mushroom? what are you dosing the tank with? and how? have you been treating for aptasia? knocked some salt ( creep ) in the tank?
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Very interesting. I will have try to replicate this event (without letting it fall on the clam obviously). Any other thoughts?
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I wonder if one of your shrimp developed the occasional taste for clam? If not I would bet something in your tank is chewing on it.
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I watched some small amphipods (sp?) running about last night and tried to see if they were going near the mantle. There were some along side and under the clam, but none on the mantle. Weird eh? I guess I wont know for sure unless I see something actually feasting on it. After the first episode (2nd and 3rd pictures above), the mantle re-grew itself and looked as if nothing ever happened. Hopefully it will regrow this time as well.
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i saw this on a derasa at the LFS i work for, it was in a stock tank with no shrimp, then moved to a display with noting but clams and other SPS... seemed healty
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i would think if it was a shrimp, the other memebers of the CUC would be all over the dieing tissue.
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Im going to monitor it to see if it appears on other areas of the mantle.
Could it be possible that the clam did this by itself, some sort of temporary tissue recession?
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