Acclimate and quarantine new clams

[islandboy]

I was not too successful in keeping my first 2 clams (derasa 2-3" and Tahitian 5-6"), both die during second week of acclimation. :squigglemouth:

I setup the QT tank the morning I picked up both clams. Only parm that I check was the salinity. I'm running a minimum HOB filter from petco, a small heater and T5. My question is does the QT tank need time to cycle before bringing purchasing clams.

The Tahitian die first and a day later the derasa die.

I fed the clams phyto once a day.

I'm not going to purchase a Tahitian, as I found out afterwards, they are hard to raise, but I would like to raise a clam in my tank.

What could I have done differently. Your help is greatly appreciated.

 

[skinz78]

How big is your display tank and do you plan on adding clams after the initial first clams are added?

 

[islandboy]

95 gal

 

[islandboy]

i plan on adding one clam to my DT. The othe clam was for my son's DT

 

[skinz78]

If that is all you intend on adding I'd just add them to the DT. I don't quarantine my clams....

 

[Squishie89]

Did you use water and sponges from your DT? Because yes I do believe the water and filter need to be cycled. I am not neccesarily saying that is what killed them, but yeah.

 

[islandboy]

I placed them in my QT tank, based on the 'sticky' in this forumn prior to placing them in my DT using freshly made batch of saltwater using RO/DI to the correct salinity the morning I picked up the clams.

 

[fridmani]

What type of lighting do you have? I don't feed my clams and just make sure the water parameters are good and the lighting is good.

 

[islandboy]

In the QT tank, I was using a T5 light, but my DT has 2 vega's color

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