clam die last night

[Zero Oxygen]

hmmm thats the problem, no signal, yesteday came back see the mantle suddenly loob one side, took it out inspect, the underneath started to retract...... can see through the other side from beneath.....

next day gone..........

[Dispar_Anthias]

as above

my maxi died last night

but rest of the clam okie leh

don know y?

bro roidan help

one of my fav manz

ultra one leh

Eh beside the legendary clam shipment from the shop in the central 1 year ago.... There are no more ultra clam sighted.. so unless you bought from there, you could not really get an ultra

[DeepBlue]

just bought the deltec epoxy...was reading the instructions and found one of the explanation for the product interesting...it says that clams placed on the sandbed are easily attacked by bristle worms..the small ones would crawl underneath and eat the clam from below...(they recommend epoxy the base or something..didnt bother to read the rest)

you know what...a few of my clams that died on the sandbed had small bristle worms found beneath...

I always thought they were scavengers appearing when the clam was dying...hmm..... there may be some truth in this.......

(afterall the fact is provided by a very establish reef pdt company)

The only clam I have now...(more than 8 months) is a small maxima I placed among the hard rockworks ..among my sps...guess no worms visits that corner of the tank.............(touch wood)

[19percula]

i hate those damnz clam dieseases

[giantbicycle]

This is wad happen to mine when my tank Bin Ba BO...Crashed last mth

[kschew1498]

My condolance.....2 of my corcea died while I was playing with my fans and chiller......I guess it cannot ta han the great swinging of temp.......27-29....sigh!.......so sad!

Now I have got 2 maxi (bought yesterday), 2 corcea and 1 giant squamosa........better keep watch......worry about my light intensity!

[alanseah]

your light is only 150W so just nice... no worry..

me try 3 clam and 3 die on me.. so give up already.. anyway my strong water current not suitbale for clam also..

[19percula]

This is wad happen to mine when my tank Bin Ba BO...Crashed last mth

same leh that time my clam also die like this

[Travy]

wah lau.... Me thinking of trying to keep clams leh... read all yur

massage ah...

[giantbicycle]

same leh that time my clam also die like this

yar lorh...then take out , all the laylang fly ard in my tank...Cous a high Shock of N03.. Then hours after it..tank crashed

[19percula]

but bro not all reefers here have the same thing happening to them so don give up on these nice clams

have faith and also get more advice from exprience reefers here 1st before stepping into it coz "ONCE U POP, U CANT STOP"

LOL

[Fuzz]

hmm... anyone knows why my clam suddenly died?? I place my maxima & crocea on a higher place, then next thing both died ... one yesterday and one today.... they just shivel up and when I lift it up, there is a big hole underneath... they don't respond anymore... so I had to throw them away...

any advise?? water perimeters are all ok...

[strat]

O no! Sorry to hear that the other did not make it either...

Maybe there is already something wrong with the clam during the time you bought it...

[tineng]

might be parasites.....one of my clams died when i moved it from its rock....i notice small little snails on it so my guess is its the parasites....I can't seems to get rid of them though and the rest of my clams has 'marks' on them that i guess are made by these snails....anyway, it has been 2 months since it happened but the rest of my 4 clams seems to be doing quite well (but every now and then still notice the bore mark on their shell)...I don't date to move them anymore because i suspect the snails can only get to their flesh when you remove them from the rocks....

[Fuzz]

the clams were good and responding to the light when I bought it... in fact they have been in my tank for 2 months plus... I hope my other clams will be ok...

[vvswong]

I jus read this topic....can anybody tell me what will happen when the tank crashed due to delay take out of death maxi?? I m sooooo worried now cos morning i saw my maxi going to up lorry liao...that was 8am i thk, than now is 1240am next day...i read the this thread half way and jump off my chair to take out the maxi.....tested my no2 n no3...seem ok ley....but....how am i going to sleep... ...pray pray...everything will be fine....

[marinehobbist]

I have decided that I will not have anymore clams in my tank. Very painful indeed when you see them just passed away mysteriously, one by one. I have total of about 12 clam shells decorated at my foyer.

[vvswong]

Some one just told me that my lighting is not enough. That's y my maxi si liao.

My tank dimension is 4x2x2. I m using 3 x magnum pl tube lighting. Each lighting has 4 tubes within. 1 blue n 2 white. On 2 always with switching around the white.

Is that really the cause?? Can this be justified??