Cant keep clams:(

[ruidos99]

hi guys, well i have an 800g dispaly full sps for 6 years now. and cant keep clams.

I had 4 maximas, lost 1... and the other 3 looked baaad. A friend put them in this 6 month old reef and in 24h they look a lot better... any clues?

 

[ruidos99]

 

[kapnkush608]

Parameters? What ar you stocking for fish and inverts?

 

[ruidos99]

Parameters? What ar you stocking for fish and inverts?

hi, i posted my las icp test from a few weeks.

the clams were on my sump, just a small blue tang and a yellow tang, 2 gyres , 3 gen2 radions and 1 360w kessil

 

[maroun.c]

could any of the fish be nipping at them? That's what I'm suspecting in my tank where clams don't seem to last long as well.

 

[ruidos99]

could any of the fish be nipping at them? That's what I'm suspecting in my tank where clams don't seem to last long as well.

hi! thankx for the reply.

Well there are 3 fish in the sump, a yellow tang a smal hippo tang and a file fish.

I do have 10 emerald crabs in there and i see lits of bristle worms at night

 

[maroun.c]

Theoretically all these should be clam safe. Inwould try to observe from.a. distance when u add a clam.and for long time to check if any has developped a taste for clams

 

[mdcmonster]

I have seen someone who has had trouble with clams and also found bristle worms under the clam. He felt the worms may be messing with its foot or something

 

[maroun.c]

I hear a lot of blame on bristle worms, and while tgeyre present in any tank, many are able to keep clams alive.

 

[hart24601]

I wouldn't be shocked if a fish was nipping. I have had several species of tang nip clams, not sure if the filefish could be the nipper. Potentially any fish that grazes off rock can sometimes start eating the slime from the mantle.

 

[Brad Montgomery]

Go outside and watch through a window. A tip from Jason Fox he had an orange shoulder tang nipping at corals

 

[ScottR]

What do you feed the clams? Sometimes clams die because they basically starve to death.

 

[MSB123]

Where did you get the clams?

 

[DSC reef]

My bet would be fish nipping the mantle. Clams do not need fed, they can get there carbon energy from light and have the ability to take in ammonia, phosphate from the water column through pinocytosing microvillous epidermal cells.