| are you sure it nipped off the excurrent siphon? the incurrent siphon just looks like a flat hole...kinda like a slit.
i've had no trouble with even a large CBS and my clams...in fact, the CBS could walk on the clams and clean the shell margins without so much as a flinch from my clams.
as mentioned, when a clam is in mortal distress, cleaner shrimp, Nassarius snails, and a host of other critters will indeed make short work of it. if a shrimp was picking at a healthy clam it would be at the margin of its mantle as NO healthy specimen would stay open long enuf for the shrimp to attack its center.
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Last edited by saxman; 09-04-2007 at 06:42 PM.
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