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05-18-2013, 10:01 PM
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I seams to be getting a bit worse today
 It's a little bit more receided but only those 2 spots... how do we call sections of mantle? Like there are 4 sections on each side and only 2 sections on only one side are showing this. The rest of the clam seams top health. The clam react well to light and is not gaping. This is very wierd. I am debating to do a fresh water dip or not. I don't know what's a fresh water dip could do if the problem is not pinched mantle... Also something wierd that I have noticed, is that underneat the affected sections, the new growth of shell has some sort of filaments. I checked and it is not something alive, rather it looks like it's the tissue of the shell that is getting soft on the edge.
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05-19-2013, 01:27 AM
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Maybe something is bothering it, is it touching any other clams or corals?
Maybe check this out also http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2006-09/jf/
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05-19-2013, 07:38 PM
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nothing touch it that I can see. I checked for pyramid snails and other anoyance but nothing that I could see. The only thing that I cannot control are those amphipods that are anoying it at night.
When ever I go to the bathroom at night I go check on the clams and I chase the amphipods away by blowing them off the clams. I don't know if this has anything to do with the clam condition. Once I had a cleaner wrasse that took many bites out of the clams and it regrew everything missing piece of its mantle. Now I cannot even see any bite marks. It's like the mantle is just shriveling on that part.
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05-28-2013, 10:48 PM
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It could be pinched mantle.
My advice is give it a freshwater bath for a few minutes (match temperature). If it is pinched mantle, it should help. If it isn't pinched mantle, at least it won't hurt the clam. Afraid you will have to google or search for the recommended time for the FW bath as I don't remember that part offhand, sorry!
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05-28-2013, 11:07 PM
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I know you've been having trouble with the amphipods for a while, Have you ever considered putting something out at night in your tank that they'd rather eat than the clam? Sort of like planting marigolds amongst vegetables, but rather than repelling the pods, you'd be giving them something else to munch on? Like maybe a frozen clam from the fish market?
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