derrick orosz
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twice a week i feed my corals and clam a mixure of reed roids, plyop buster, phyto, mysis, brine and cylopeeze
Bristle Worm Eating Clam??
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Those snails don't just appear and after 18 months of your clam being healthy, that would indicate that you must have brought them into your system as a hitch hiker
In any case, great article in the link attached
http://www.reef2reef.com/threads/pyramid-snail-removal-tips.57886/
In any case, great article in the link attached
http://www.reef2reef.com/threads/pyramid-snail-removal-tips.57886/
derrick orosz
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i added for sps colonies on the weekend so i was thinking maybe they where on there
Did you dip or inspect before adding to tank? Where were the frags bought from...may want to contact seller to see if they got clam In same system as sps frags.
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derrick orosz
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I didnt dip, i never have...guess ill have to read up on it this weekend...got the colonies from canada corals and she did mention they had recently got clams but they sold quickly.
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always dip and qt. it saves alot of headaches and money.
reeferkeeper420
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Yeah man like samb, and scubasteve said always dip..ive had to learn the hard way about being lax on dipping...just because everything looks great doesnt mean this is so..ive been battling Acro eating flatworms for the last month,month and a half, and then recently found 2 different flatworms on my torch. Its a fairly easy and fast step to help eliminate pests.( wont do anything to eggs, so a good inspection is always a good idea.) Lots of different dips, CoralRx, Bayers...thats all i can think of right now lol. I personally use Bayers, only because ive been told its one of the strongest dips.
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They will only feed on clams, so no clam means no snails. The store up here on the Hamilton mountain has those snails in their clam tank. I won't buy anything there anymore.
You may just need to wait it out.
You may just need to wait it out.
heath
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would you not think that the store would dip the livestock coming in to help avoid/lower their mortality rate.. that would make sense to me, not saying or implying anything bad about the store...
It is not very likely you got clam eating snails off of SPS from Canada corals recently and the snails already killed the clam. For those snails to kill a clam they have to be in larger numbers or over a few weeks. Plus they would probably not be on SPS. Pyramidellid snails have a mouth called a proboscis to puncture the soft tissue on clams and suck the Zooxanthellae out of the mantle and over time the clam starves and dies. They don't normally kill quickly unless they covered it completely or it was already weakened. Pyramidellid snails are not all that common but they do occur. If it was snails they were probably already in your tank and it finally succumbed to them over time.
It is also not very likely the Polyshete worms like a bristle worm killed the clam as the kinds in your tank typically eat dead and decaying food. The Polyshete would however come over after the clam is dead to clean it up so it would look like it killed it. I keep my clam on the substrate over the years and have hundreds of bristle worms in my tank with no issue.
Green boring algae in the clam shell that bores throughout the shell and it releases hormones that cause the clam mantle to peel back is a possibility. The boring algae don't always cause death to the clam but it can open up the clam to bacteria or protozoan infection that kills the clam. Do you see a green tinge to the shell on the inside of the shell with little holes on the outside?
Any tank parameter swings? Like PH, DKH, salinity ect? That can kill a clam. What type of fish do you have? Some fish will kill a clam all of a sudden one day after being a model tank mate. Crabs? They will kill them to for food.
It is also not very likely the Polyshete worms like a bristle worm killed the clam as the kinds in your tank typically eat dead and decaying food. The Polyshete would however come over after the clam is dead to clean it up so it would look like it killed it. I keep my clam on the substrate over the years and have hundreds of bristle worms in my tank with no issue.
Green boring algae in the clam shell that bores throughout the shell and it releases hormones that cause the clam mantle to peel back is a possibility. The boring algae don't always cause death to the clam but it can open up the clam to bacteria or protozoan infection that kills the clam. Do you see a green tinge to the shell on the inside of the shell with little holes on the outside?
Any tank parameter swings? Like PH, DKH, salinity ect? That can kill a clam. What type of fish do you have? Some fish will kill a clam all of a sudden one day after being a model tank mate. Crabs? They will kill them to for food.
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Predatory whelks (look like mini Nassarius snails) will kill and eat anything meaty, clams included and will do it faster than pyramidal snails. Their eggs can come in on anything (usually inside rock) and can seem like harmless scavengers until food gets scarce or they find something tasty. If you have them the usual sign is a high mortality rate of your good snails...(tasty snacks for whelks).