Is this clam in trouble?

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Originally Posted by swill

Crap...pyramid snails!!! No one mentioned anything about these guys prior to you. See long story short, I bought this tank from a guy here in town, he owned the tank with full setup for about 6 years. He said these clams for about 2 or 3 years. This tank has all the bells and whistles. I use R/O water and for type of clam, I'm not sure, he couldn't tell me and I asked on here but no one seemed to know. It was the only thing that bothered me about buying this tank, I really wanted to be familiar with everything in it and wanted to read up on all the corals since most were new to me (went from LPS to SPS tank overnight almost) ...anyway, I have pyramid snails for sure, they were just covering the huge clam and actually before I dumped the clam I thought I would save the snails, so I took a toothbrush and brushed them all off into my Seahorse tank I am not sure how much harm they can do in there to the Seahorses but I am as we speak trying to get them all out of that tank....I've seen them in the past stuck to the Seahorse so I hope to god that they didn't harm them...ugh...sometimes this hobby frustrates me to no end...it is my fault I guess though for not doing my research on owning a clam Fail!!!

thats ok it happens man , whenever a coral, fish or invert isnt doing well always look at water quality, enviroment and tankmates/predators this will usually narrow down your search pretty fast.

pyramid snails i believe are nocturnal and a carnivores , they will also eat large snails( ive witnessed them eating smaller ones)

usually a few snails wont knock off a clam but they are almost always in numbers , they hide in the snad and rocks untll dark then go hunting.

usually a brush and a fresh water dip will help , there are also wrasse that eat them , my mystery wrasse eats them as my roomate had them in his tank too.

remember for almost everything that lives there is something that hunts it


go hunting at 3am with bait ( clam meat )and add a wrasse to get rid of the snails you have if the tank allows for one


cheers and good luck.


denny