clam lost its foot...

[oceanparadise1]

is it going to die no matter what?angry9:

 

[oceanparadise1]

finace wanted to move it and just picked it up and placed it else where......

 

[dan10342]

the clam should regrow its foot.... "should" being the key term.

how does the clam look now?

 

[oceanparadise1]

it opened right back up you cant even tell, just scared the crap outta me i dont want it to die

 

[dan10342]

well it might die. im not gonna lie to ya. just leave it alone, and see what happens. im not a clam expert. but from past experience, i tore my clams foot when moving it from a 15 to the 55. it lived a year and a half after that before (i went on vacation) it died.

 

[oceanparadise1]

cool i hope so it was the bigger of the two the purple one but it opened right back up hope i dont lose it

 

[dan10342]

is it the crocea?

 

[oceanparadise1]

idk i think so its like the purple ones i showed u at TRS

 

[dan10342]

ah. um... idk then. mine was a deresa clam. (dont even ask why i had one... lol). deresas are i think the easiest, followed by crocea, then squammys and maximas. idk tho.

 

[oceanparadise1]

 

[Eklikewhoa]

It needs to be on a piece of rock.

 

[oceanparadise1]

okay i will move him now, is rubble okay?

 

[Eklikewhoa]

Anything really...if you can find a large frag disk that would be perfect but anything that it will stay upright on will work.

 

[oceanparadise1]

cool but will it grow its foot back or am i SOL

 

[Eklikewhoa]

Should be fine.

 

[oceanparadise1]

cool thanks for all the help!

 

[Nate82]

for the second time that's the crocea and the brown ones the squammy

 

[oceanparadise1]

hahaha thanks bro

 

[paintballer768]

Its a crocea. Mine loves the sand, and if its on the rocks it tosses itself off. Are you sure its the foot it lost and not the byssal threads? Google for a pic.

If you pulled the clam out and the foot ripped, the clam probably wont make it. If it ditched em itself, then no worries.

 

[dan10342]

byssal glands... correct. thats what tore on my deresa. not the actual foot.

phil, it should be alright. IMO a dead clamshell works wonders to mount a clam onto. its not quite flat like a rock, so the clam cant toss itself off