My clam is almost gone :(

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I've had this beautiful clam for 2 months.

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It's been like the below image for about a week.

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And today...

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I just checked all my water parameters, everything is on my point, I test and dose accordingly daily. I only have 4 fish, all reef safe, 2 clowns, firefish and mandarin.

The only thing I saw which I could even consider annoying the clam was my blood shrimp but that was when my clam started looking like the second picture and I got rid of the shrimp yesterday.

Previously you can say I have man handled a maxima and dearasa which were a 3rd the size of this clam and they never died on me like this through everything they went through, even after damaging a maxima's foot.

This is very hard to take especially given I imported this from Germany to the UK and paid 33% of the clam's price just in shipping alone.

I guess all I can ask at this stage is when is the appropriate time to remove it from my aquarium? As right now it's alive in whatever poor state it's in.
 
I've had this beautiful clam for 2 months.

IMGP2277.jpg


It's been like the below image for about a week.

20170915_125209.jpg


And today...

20170918_152200.jpg


I just checked all my water parameters, everything is on my point, I test and dose accordingly daily. I only have 4 fish, all reef safe, 2 clowns, firefish and mandarin.

The only thing I saw which I could even consider annoying the clam was my blood shrimp but that was when my clam started looking like the second picture and I got rid of the shrimp yesterday.

Previously you can say I have man handled a maxima and dearasa which were a 3rd the size of this clam and they never died on me like this through everything they went through, even after damaging a maxima's foot.

This is very hard to take especially given I imported this from Germany to the UK and paid 33% of the clam's price just in shipping alone.

I guess all I can ask at this stage is when is the appropriate time to remove it from my aquarium? As right now it's alive in whatever poor state it's in.

Are any of your test kits expired or close to being? If you have t-5's or mh are they older bulbs ?
Maybe someone else has a better guess
 
Are any of your test kits expired or close to being? If you have t-5's or mh are they older bulbs ?
Maybe someone else has a better guess

All test kits are new and Salifert. I have a single Kessil A360WE over a 45cm cube tank. I did check for pests and there are none of those clam eating snails or anything, I scrubbed the clam down twice thoroughly, once before putting it in the tank and one more time about 4 weeks after when I noticed a small aiptasia.
 

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