Is my clam healthy

[Rick cowen]

couldn't help myself got a Squamosa for a killer price healthy?

Great looking clams

 

[mitchell01]

Great looking clams

Thanks

 

[mitchell01]

Help #reefsquad what'd happening get with my crocea looked fine up until today now it looks terrible?????

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Help #reefsquad what'd happening get with my crocea looked fine up until today now it looks terrible?????

Im afraid its on its way out.

 

[mitchell01]

Im afraid its on its way out.

Yeah I kinda hinted it was going down that path any reason it would happen

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Yeah I kinda hinted it was going down that path any reason it would happen

Really hard to diagnose. You'd have to walk back the recent events in the tank and if it was healthy to begin with. Not enough light, and pests are very common too.

 

[mitchell01]

Really hard to diagnose. You'd have to walk back the recent events in the tank and if it was healthy to begin with. Not enough light, and pests are very common too.

I would rely on pests I have 2x 250 watt halides with 6 t5 so I dunno my squamosa is fine so I am puzzled?

 

[Tahoe61]

Do not give it too much weight. Clams unfortunately die for unknown reason but at the same time they are relatively hardy invert wise. With that said the shell is at an odd angle. Did you receive the clam on that rock? I am unable to figure out how the clam could foot, attach and use it's foot to move about with the way the shell is positioned on the rock.
You're lighting is fine, that would not concern me.

 

[mitchell01]

Do not give it too much weight. Clams unfortunately die for unknown reason but at the same time they are relatively hardy invert wise. With that said the shell is at an odd angle. Did you receive the clam on that rock? I am unable to figure out how the clam could foot, attach and use it's foot to move about with the way the shell is positioned on the rock.
You're lighting is fine, that would not concern me.

I put rock there to gives him something to attach his foot too, was that my fatal error? He was always pushed over on his side in the morning but I just put rock there and he footed?

 

[Tahoe61]

If they get wedged and can not move freely about the base of the shell or maneuver with their foot I imagine that would stress them enough to kill it. My newer Crocea has attached to the bottom of the tank and that is typically what they will do if the sand bed is somewhat shallow. My large Hippopus no longer attaches but moves about routinely with it's HUGE foot.

 

[mitchell01]

If they get wedged and can not move freely about the base of the shell or maneuver with their foot I imagine that would stress them enough to kill it. My newer Crocea has attached to the bottom of the tank and that is typically what they will do if the sand bed is somewhat shallow. My large Hippopus no longer attaches but moves about routinely with it's HUGE foot.

Ok I am going to move my squamy of the little bit of rock and into the sandbed good plan?

 

[Tahoe61]

If the Squamosa is attached I would leave it be, if not I would put it in the sand bed on a flat piece if able, but the sand bed is fine for Squamosa. Why did you have the clams in that container? nvm, I went back and looked.
If the clams have Pyramids the only reason to elevate them is for ease of removing the clams for visual inspection and removal of the snail. Pyramids will make it into the system and to the clams if they are present.

 

[Rick cowen]

Look up the byssal openings on these clams, the crocea have the largest opening on the bottom which makes them more susceptible to predators from underneath, the opening never closes.(hence the reason they burrow into rock) The squamosa, derasa and the hippopus clams are more hardy for this reason. The squamosa and derasa will gradually close underneath while the hippopus closes tightly. Hope this helps.

 

[mitchell01]

Look up the byssal openings on these clams, the crocea have the largest opening on the bottom which makes them more susceptible to predators from underneath, the opening never closes.(hence the reason they burrow into rock) The squamosa, derasa and the hippopus clams are more hardy for this reason. The squamosa and derasa will gradually close underneath while the hippopus closes tightly. Hope this helps.

That's great help thanks

 

[mitchell01]

Pyramid snails ?

 

[Rick cowen]

Sue looks like it, crush and pulverize those nasty buggers, with extreme prejudice

 

[mitchell01]

Sue looks like it, crush and pulverize those nasty buggers, with extreme prejudice

There shells are not triangular but very round I do have a lot of colonista snails they were not on the foot but the outside of the shell?

 

[mitchell01]

Sue looks like it, crush and pulverize those nasty buggers, with extreme prejudice

And could they eat a clam in one night I have only had it for about two weeks

 

[Rick cowen]

And could they eat a clam in one night I have only had it for about two weeks

No, they couldn't do that in one night.its usually a slow process for these guys.(If those snails are round, I agree, not a pyramid snail.) Even zoomed in,on my phone, they looked triangular

 

[mitchell01]

No they were round, I panicked at first but then I realized they are not pyramid shape