What fish have you had nip clams?

Jeremy Blaze · #1 09/27/2005, 12:41 PM

I'll start.

Map Angel

Lemon Peel Angel

dvmsn · #2 09/27/2005, 02:22 PM

Yellow mimic tang.

nam2212 · #3 09/27/2005, 03:36 PM

Coral Beauty Angel

Barry N. · #4 09/27/2005, 03:44 PM

Copper Band ButterFly

pad · #5 09/27/2005, 10:01 PM

Flame Angel

Omar H · #6 09/27/2005, 10:40 PM

Fox Face

SSweet1 · #7 09/28/2005, 08:22 PM

Achilles tang for a little while he wouldnt leave them alone, just when I was going to rip out rocks and stuff to get him he stopped!! Thank God! Carrie

gophia · #8 09/28/2005, 08:31 PM

Neon Gobies..................I HATE NEON GOBIES!!!

Brewen · #9 09/28/2005, 08:32 PM

coral beauty angel

fishypets · #10 09/28/2005, 08:57 PM

Purple tang....Took me two weeks to figure out who was doing it but finially caught the little booger red handed.

floridareefs · #11 09/29/2005, 08:30 AM

my coral beauty doesnt touch my clams. He has benn in there for over a year

mc-cro · #12 09/29/2005, 02:21 PM

So all the fish I really want huh?

TXLewis · #13 09/29/2005, 02:22 PM

Neon Goby nips at my Deresa. Totally ignores Maxima and Crocea. Going to remove the sucker if I can ever catch him.

mc-cro · #14 09/29/2005, 02:38 PM

I was once told that pygmy angels do not bother clams.
Are the angels, specifically the coral bueaty and flame angel pygmy's?

TXLewis · #15 09/29/2005, 03:19 PM

Coral Beauty (Centropyge bispinosa) and Flame Angel (Centropyge ioricula) are both pygmy angels. I had both before in a 75g with two Maximas and they left it alone. I think its hit or miss on an individual fish basis. If you want to take a chance and you do get one that nibbles, consider the difficulty of catching the fish and removing it vs. the cost of the clams it could damage. How badly do you want one?

Jeremy Blaze · #16 09/29/2005, 03:37 PM

Pygmy angels are hit or miss. I have a pair of Lemon peels, a coral beauty, an atlantic pygmy, and have only seen the lemons nip at any clams. When they do this they seem to only be getting the mucus and not hurting the flesh.

But some can be distructive. I have several lobopylias in the tank which they will sample the mucus from but not hurt the flesh, however I added a cynarina to the tank and they distroyed it. Killed it in 2 days.

Steve C.S. · #17 09/29/2005, 03:53 PM

Scarlet Clown, Killed two clams befor I caught it.

Herbert T. Kornfeld · #18 09/30/2005, 01:24 AM

I am wary of my bicolor blenny. I know rock lawnmowers nip sometimes, but I never thought a bicolor would until this week...he looks like hes nipping, but he could be just going for algae near the mantle. I dont see any actual bite marks.

Wiskey · #19 09/30/2005, 04:15 PM

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Originally posted by Herbert T. Kornfeld
I am wary of my bicolor blenny. I know rock lawnmowers nip sometimes, but I never thought a bicolor would until this week...he looks like hes nipping, but he could be just going for algae near the mantle. I dont see any actual bite marks.

My bicolor does not nip but,....

Stupid fish,...

Whiskey

Herbert T. Kornfeld · #20 09/30/2005, 11:31 PM

He looks like he made it...or did he die?

Wiskey · #21 10/01/2005, 12:25 AM

He made it, barely.

Whisey

cmhollis · #22 10/16/2005, 11:43 PM

I have caught my Lawnmower Blenny nipping at my Crocea once or twice. If he keeps that up, he will not be making the move to the new tank.

Herbert T. Kornfeld · #23 10/17/2005, 12:01 AM

LMBs I know are big nippers...

HookedOnReefing · #24 10/17/2005, 07:36 PM

He looks kind off shaken up there Whiskey. Glad he made it out OK

I've had an Imperator Angel, Golden Pygme Angel and a supposedly reef safe male Lyretail Angel nip at clams. The little golden pygme angel was by far the worst of all of them.

Charlie Davidson · #25 10/21/2005, 10:19 PM

GSM clown-- Big chunks taken from Mantel of then small dersa (2"), the clam, now "6-7" is still here. Clown moved on to a better world.