Emergency Moral Dilema - Page 2

canadawest · #11 07-19-2002, 05:20 AM

Cross your fingers Brad, perhaps you'll wake up to a recovering clam in the morning.

If not, at least it went on it's own overnight, and you don't have to feel guilty about taking it's life in your hands. (HTH)

Aquattro · #12 07-19-2002, 08:48 AM

Crossing my fingers seems to be working for the moment...I still have a living clam. Almost happy looking too. We'll see....

stephane · #13 07-19-2002, 11:51 AM

Sory for your lost :(

I never heard about that but have you ask RC clams forum?

about trowing out I tink you should wait maybe she could recovert!!!! dont bury it alive give here a chance ;)

stephane · #14 07-19-2002, 11:52 AM

Ho! and if you have a diatom+water change for cleaning that mess Azap

BCReefer · #15 07-19-2002, 12:54 PM

My clam has also perished last Friday. That is the 2nd and I will not buy another until I figure out what is going on.

Maybe with such a big death toll on clams in the past few months, can their be any thing going on when they are picked from the ocean and flown to Vancouver????

Mine was their one day and the next it was gone and I mean gone - right out of its shell. Not sure if after it died did the cleaners get it or do I have a clam eater in my tank??

Patrick

DJ88 · #16 07-19-2002, 12:59 PM

Brad,

both my black and purple max are doing great. No problems.

Aquattro · #17 07-19-2002, 02:25 PM

Strangely, mine is still OK. I'm suspecting the white goo was sperm. It still doesn't look as good as it has, but it's mantle is out and it's smiling.

Delphinus · #18 07-19-2002, 02:32 PM

To be honest Brad, my first impulse was to ask "are you sure it isn't a spawn"? But then I thought twice, because I figured, oh shoot of course he knows if it's a spawn or not.

Maybe somehow there was a stressor, and the stress induced a spawn, but other than that maybe it's OK.

I am glad you decided to hold off on making any final decisions. I am the same way. Far easier to let something go on its own, rather than seal its fate and wonder forever after if you did the right thing. Granted, sometimes it IS the right thing, but it sounds like yours has a fighting chance.

Good luck!!!!

Aquattro · #19 07-19-2002, 05:45 PM

Tony, any other time I would have assumed it was a spawn. But having my squamosa die had me paranoid. Then the gold maxima did this spewing thing, and I though"hmm, maybe it's spawning" but then it died!! So when the blue one started this, I though "s**t, this one's gonna die now". And everyone I know has dying clams, I just panicked...so far it still looks fine.
Not sure what could have trggered any stress as everything has been stable for days previous. Nothing else appeared stressed either. Ohwell, don't look a gift clam in the siphon, or whatever that saying is!!

Thanks everyone for your advice and concern.

Delphinus · #20 07-19-2002, 05:58 PM

I thought that clam spawns in captivity are a bad thing. Basically, they choke to death on their own gametes or it clogs their gills or something like that -- because in the ocean the spawn is very quickly carried away and dissipated into the ocean -- but in our tanks it has nowhere to go so it very quickly progresses from a "hey this is cool" to "OMG WHAT IS HAPPENING?!!".

I wonder if this is what's happened to you, and not this dreaded clam disease. Well of course it could be that too but I'm just wondering.

Of course, I am still sorry for the other losses. I know your pain! All too well. I really, really hope this one pulls through for you!