Clam friendly Clean Up Crew

[ColaAddict]

Can anyone suggest any Clam friendly Clean Up Crew? I bought some clams, but I caught my Holloween hermit crabs trying to claw at it tonight, so the little booger is spending some time out in my refugium. Are there any crabs that are clam friendly?

 

[Cubbies]

IMO I think regular red and blues should be fine. I don't have any experience personally with clams so I can't really comment much but they're ok with almost anything. On the other hand I've heard of Halloween crabs being on the so so side of being even reef safe so you might want to watch out with him.

 

[EricTheRed]

I'm shopping for a clam. Did you buy your locally?

 

[poidog]

i have scarlets, blues, zebras, and mexican and they all leave my clams alone. they'll pick at the shells to eat stuff on them, but never bother the clam itself.

 

[ColaAddict]

I'm shopping for a clam. Did you buy your locally?

I got mine online, but I know MCF will occasionally get a shipment of em, and thier price are pretty cheap on the clams too.

 

[lunacris]

I have reds blues and all types of snails. Cleaner shrimp cb shrimp harlequin shrimp fire shrimp and a few emerald crabs. None of these pick at my clams. Like mentioned before I've seen them pick at the shell but never any damage done

 

[Stonefish13]

I have 7 clams from 2"-10" and I have red and blue hermits, cb shrimp, emerald crabs, electric blue hermits, halloween hermit, an arrow crab, and acro crabs and I've never seen any of them pick at the clams other than the shell to clean them up.

 

[ColaAddict]

The holloween hermits weren't clawing on the mantle, I saw one of them trying to peel chunks out from the foot of the clam when I placed the clams on the sand. They haven't attached to rock yet because I'm still light acclimating them and starting the on the sand. Maybe once the foot are attached to something, they'll leave it alone.