Whats wrong with my Clams?

[whatcaneyedo]

Here is what killed all seven of the clams that I had collected over 5 years. Have you ruled them out completely? I rarely ever saw them on my clams, the species that I had must have preferred other snails. I would however see them all over the glass, sand and rocks during the day and night. Once I went clam-less and basically snail-less for several months they all disappeared and I haven't seen any in the last year.

Begin doing regular water changes, thats obvious. My other recommendations are to give them a freshwater dip, then remove them to a quarantine tank and do daily water changes on it with water from your main system. Replace the water that you remove with newly mixed saltwater. Then just wait and see if they improve.

The astrea snail in this picture is actually still alive and well in my tank a year after the clam genocide.


For nearly a week before each one died they would look like this.

[MarkoD]

I haven't seen any of those snails in my tank. And today both of my clams are fully open and seem to have recovered completely. And they're both reacting normally to shadows and vibration

Originally Posted by whatcaneyedo

Here is what killed all seven of the clams that I had collected over 5 years. Have you ruled them out completely? I rarely ever saw them on my clams, the species that I had must have preferred other snails. I would however see them all over the glass, sand and rocks during the day and night. Once I went clam-less and basically snail-less for several months they all disappeared and I haven't seen any in the last year.

Begin doing regular water changes, thats obvious. My other recommendations are to give them a freshwater dip, then remove them to a quarantine tank and do daily water changes on it with water from your main system. Replace the water that you remove with newly mixed saltwater. Then just wait and see if they improve.

The astrea snail in this picture is actually still alive and well in my tank a year after the clam genocide.


For nearly a week before each one died they would look like this.

[The Grizz]

Case Closed, Clams Open, Close thread......move on people .... nothing to see here............












Glad to here the clams are doing better MarkoD

[daniella3d]

I know it's been a long time, but it happened. I came home to day to see my croccea clam in pretty bad shape and watching the cleaner wrasse picking at it like crazy.

It was a model cityzen for 8 months, but today this all changed and he started to pick at my clams. I can see the croccea has quite a bit of bite marks and my beautiful maxima has 3 or 4 bit marks, all this done only today.

I cought the wrasse and put it in my nano and will give it for free to anyone who wants it and have a decent setup. Lesson learned, no more cleaner wrasse.

No the wrasse was not picking at parasites on the clams as they don't have any and it was easy to see what was going on as he was munching on my clam mantle with furious bites right in front of me.

[MarkoD]

I'm sure a water change will help

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by MarkoD

I'm sure a water change will help

How long have you been waiting for that one??

[gregzz4]

Originally Posted by MarkoD

I'm sure a water change will help

[reefwars]

Originally Posted by MarkoD

I'm sure a water change will help

+1

a water change fixes everything always....no matter what....always

[11purewater]

Nobody has a test kit for everything that makes s up synthetic salt water,but all those ingredients probably have a purpose and will get depleted.Even small water changes regularly will have benefits,the schedule and how much is up to you,just do it.And thats all i have to say about that.

[MKLKT]

Originally Posted by MarkoD

I'm sure a water change will help

Combine that with the thread about fish getting sucked out through water change siphon and you've got a solution.