Derasa Clam Help

[DonTavo27]

What’s up R2Reefers, hope you’ve all had a great weekend. I just wanted to get everyone’s opinion and advice On what’s going on with this clam, and how to help it. I purchased it a few months back from Vivid aquariums, and it seemed to be doing great, until about a week ago. Is this thing slowly dying, or is it just hungry, maybe needing more light? I did adjust the color on my 360x to a bluer spectrum about a month ago, intensity Is still the same. I’d hate to loose this little fella, any advice appreciated in advance. Thank you!
parameters:
Calcium 500ppm
Alkalinity 10.5 dkh
Magnesium 1500ppm
Salinity 1.027

 

[Lizdoesreef]

Definitely not a good sign. I had that happen once years ago and the clam crapped out a few weeks after. How long had you had this clam?? Weeks, months? What do u think u did different lately? Have u tried spot feeding? Usually large clams don't need spot feeding, as I never had to w mines and had success. Your alk seems a bit high. I never went above 9.as for light, they are fine with 150+ par. If you only had this clam for a short time, it's very possible that it wasn't happy from the start due to instability in the tank and just took a while until it gave up.

 

[DonTavo27]

Definitely not a good sign. I had that happen once years ago and the clam crapped out a few weeks after. How long had you had this clam?? Weeks, months? What do u think u did different lately? Have u tried spot feeding? Usually large clams don't need spot feeding, as I never had to w mines and had success. Your alk seems a bit high. I never went above 9.as for light, they are fine with 150+ par. If you only had this clam for a short time, it's very possible that it wasn't happy from the start due to instability in the tank and just took a while until it gave up.

I got the clam back in early February, and was doing great from the get go. My parameters Have always been this high for some reason, but remained stable, even in my last DT. Currently dosing Kalkwasser through my Ato reservoir. I’m currently spot feeding it phyto feast, and usually feed reef roids and polyp booster once a week. My only change was the color spectrum, my intensity remained the same.

 

[vetteguy53081]

In my experience, alk at 9 is favorable and salinity not to exceed1.025 and temperature 77-80 degrees
Slso look with a flashlight for any crabs or pyramid snails within its housing

 

[Lizdoesreef]

I got the clam back in early February, and was doing great from the get go. My parameters Have always been this high for some reason, but remained stable, even in my last DT. Currently dosing Kalkwasser through my Ato reservoir. I’m currently spot feeding it phyto feast, and usually feed reef roids and polyp booster once a week. My only change was the color spectrum, my intensity remained the same.

When u change spectrum u also change the par. More white spectrum equates to more par.

 

[DeniableArc]

Have you got detectable nitrate and phosphate? Clams benefit more from appropriate nutrients in water Apposed to direct spot feeding.

 

[DonTavo27]

Thank you all for replying to this thread. I will try and adjust some of my parameters, and bring my color spectrum back to what it was originally.
@DeniableArc my Pho’s and Nitrate are barely detectable, I try to minimize my water changes to twice per month for that reason.

 

[DonTavo27]

The clam does seem to be moving closer to the light, I found it almost dead center in the tank when I got home this afternoon.