QT for Clam

[al&burke]

So if you buy a clam what is the QT procedure.

 

[btldreef]

I have a QT setup for inverts/corals that has never seen meds and it has a 150 watt halide over it. I try to make them wait two water changes, which I do weekly, so they usually get two weeks and if all looks good, on the third week, they get tossed in the DT. The water change thing is just to see how they react to any sort of stress. There is such a lower risk of transferring parasites with clams, so it's really an "observe and use your own judgement" sort of thing.

 

[al&burke]

I guess a clam would not do well a couple of weeks without strong lighting. I do have a 250 watt MH set up with a 6500k bulb - an older greenhouse set up, but to put that over a 20 gallon QT would be too much.

 

[btldreef]

In most cases, a drip acclimation is all they need, I'm just a paranoid nut job that QT's everything.