my brittle starfish ate my clam!

[timdam]

Has anyone ever heard of that happening?

I have had my clam for about six months. He's sat in the sandbed all this time. A few days ago, I decided to rearrange my tank and I put him on a rock.

So I was looking at the tank tonight, and I see my brittle star's arm inside my clam's shell. I pull the clam out, and it's an empty shell now.

OMG! I want another clam. But I'm afraid this will happen again. Are brittle stars known to eat clams? I wanna kill my starfish now.

[Neogenocide]

If your brittle star ate you clam, your clam was already dead. Brittle's won't bother a live and healthy clam.

[timdam]

It was alive for six months. and then i moved it up from the sand and placed it on a ledge on the rock. Do you think that might have had any effect? or it being closer to my LED lights?

[Reef Bass]

Yeah it was probably on the edge of survival and the move and the change in light and / or flow was enough to push it over the edge.

[DustinB]

Look at the growth rim of the shell, is it white or gray? Was the clam attached when you moved it? If so, did you just pull it up?

[timdam]

it wasn't attached. it was always in the sand, so i didn't know it was supposed to attach to anything.

from seeing it in the sand, all the purple colors were always there so i assumed it was doing well.