t.crocea wont open. HELP ALL

[blitz99]

calcium being high is not the problem.. check out clamsdirect.com for specialists on teh subject... hopefully nobody here deletes that link because your clam will die if it's not taken care of..
i disagree with what you are doing with the changes to teh SG and calcium... the PH will not be the problem either, sure it's better at 8.2 but STABILITY IS THE KEY!!!! and following this advice is going to stress your clam.

 

[blitz99]

Originally Posted by unleashed
as from what i was told corals can be fw dipped to rid paresites but inverts such as clams are to sensetive to the changes and could possably kill it.this was my understanding at least.

complete contradiction to all the changes being advised.

 

[reefiness]

blitz ive looked for info there but cant find anything
and i cant post anything, the website seems isnt letting me log in.
Blitz if you have an account there and can mabye post something there with a link back to here or if you can just post a thread with the situation and tell me the title and i can look for it that would be greatly appreciated

 

[moby]

and i cant post anything, the website seems isnt letting me log in.
I checked this site also, out of curiosity and found the same thing, site seems to be having problems.

Moby

 

[reefiness]

here is a before picture which i cropped a few months ago. after i find out how to use paint again to resize then ill post a pic of what he currently looks like

 

[blitz99]

i posted a link in teh emergency section.

 

[chris&barb]

first. dont make any more changes. dont move the clam dont adjust PH,Alk/Ca any thing. can you post a pic of the clam? if not e-mail it to me and i will chris_stewart@comcast.net
IMO high Ca is not the problem.
IMO high NO3 is not the problem.
SG of 1.027 is a little high but not a big deal. i see you already lowered it, i hope you did that very slowly.
post or send me a new pic and we will see what it looks like

 

[blitz99]

chris and barb are from the clamsdirect website... talk to them, it's what they know.

 

[reefiness]

ok im sending pics to you
the quality isnt that good if you need me to point out the problem i go to paint and try to thanks a bunch!!

 

[reefiness]

also last night a checked again to see if anything was picking on it and all i can see were copepods on the shell so i dont know mabye they are doing it?? but i would doubt it myself.

 

[blitz99]

reefi, try to register there again if possible... i lost a clam last night myself.. no warning at all.
i had two on a ledge that were doing great, both attached... somehow a coral fell and tore the threads of one of them and injured it... my CB shrimp did the rest... he has been caught and dealt with.
sucks.

 

[reefiness]

i have a CB as well mabye thats the culprit, i forgot to list him in the invert list.
also i trued agin its not the registering that i cant do its signing in. when i put in username and password then click enter or watever it says the screen goes white and says "done" on the bottom left of the screen.

 

[reefiness]

i hope he recieved my emails with the pics. and replys soon or post the pictures whatever he was going to do

 

[chris&barb]

what fish do you have?
have you made any changes at all?(started or stoped doseing anything)
how do you add Alk and Ca?
do you dose Kalk? if so how?
have you checked the clam for pyram snails?
this is what they look like

 

[reefiness]

fish list is
blue hippo
purple
sailfin
pair of true percs
royal gamma
cleaner wrasse
diamond goby
LMB
green mandarin
and 1 chromis
not really, about a month ago i began dosing with alk.
i add both alk and CA using powders which i dissolve in freshwater and put in CA is seachem and alk is kent.
dont dose kalk
ive looked for pyramids but dont see any, im not sure exactly what size im looking for. i did see a fully grown copepod on the clam shell last night is that about the size, if so then i dont have any as from what part of the clam i can see.

 

[reefiness]

did you see the pics and what is actually wrong with it. like the bleaching spots. and how little it comes out compared to how it used to?

 

[reefiness]

and about the pyramid snail would they be bunched together like that, where spacifically should i look, and it is better look at night or day??
thanks

 

[chris&barb]

Originally Posted by reefiness
did you see the pics and what is actually wrong with it. like the bleaching spots. and how little it comes out compared to how it used to?

i did see the pics. i think it may be one of 2 things.
1- one of you fish may be picking at it (from what you listed, my guess is the cleaner wrasse) cut the top off a clear 2L bottle to make a dome, drill a bunch of holes in it so water can flow through and place it over the clam, if the wrasse is picking at it this will give the clam a break for it and it should start to open.
2-your Alk is or was either too low/high or you adjusted the Alk too fast,causing a spike in both Ph and Alk.
how do you add your Kalk and Alk? you need to slowly drip both when you add them.
are you using anything to lower your PO4 and NO3?(Rowa,phosban,nitrate sponge)
Pyrams are about the size of a grain of rice. most of the time they will be around the byssal opening. the best time to check for them is about 1 hour after lights out.

 

[reefiness]

ok when i add alk ( dont use kalk) i usually pour it in a very slow stream. i guess thats too fast. ill try the bottle but i dont think the clam will fit in only the dome part of it. but ill try. i put in nitrate spong a few days ago to help with no3
and also do you think that the clam can still some back or no?
also i saw a thead at clams direct and it was titled something like "pinched mantle or ruffled mantle?" and the person did a fwd and it came back to look great. can that be an option for mine?

 

[reefiness]

i dont see how the cleaner wrasse picking at it can make the slplotches in the mantle wouldnt that just cause holes or chunks taken out of it.
the best way i can describe it is as if it is abble to puff up ots mantle independantly indifferent spots and these spots are still deflated like an anemone plus the colors are bleached and not as intense as the rest of it.