clam up heaven !!!

[Zac]

hi guys.. i have a 2.5inch clam. for abt one month. yesterday it was fine and healthy but today when i came home i found that my clam only left with the clam shell only... dunnoe why.. water parameter are ok..

is there any thing that will eat up the clam.. dun think it died.. coz never see any body left...

will crab or mantis swrimp eat clams?

[Vili_Shark]

Yes they can, and so can other predators.

The clam could also die from other reasons and hours after it died the flesh will drop out of the shell , sometimes it's the fish who are picking on it.

Ya might have a predator, but it can be that the clam died from other reason as well.

[shoelevy]

both my clams also like that...gd and fine then suddenly retract and died off within 24hrs...water parameters were all ok

mine were croceas...very sad and my condolensces to u

i've asked around for advice and i can only bring myself to beleive that its clam disease and not predation because all reef safe creatures,didn't spot any crabs, mantis or pyramid snails

perhaps yours was like that too....

cheers and hope future will be better

[Zac]

thanks shoelevy and vili_shark..

so sad that it died just like tat..

i have spotted alot of crabs and a mantis in my tank.. tried using a diy bottle trap to trap it but to no avail.... any idea how i can get rib of the crabs and mantis?

now got to find something to blame on.. so wont be so sad

[acidjazz]

thanks shoelevy and vili_shark..

so sad that it died just like tat..

i have spotted alot of crabs and a mantis in my tank.. tried using a diy bottle trap to trap it but to no avail.... any idea how i can get rib of the crabs and mantis?

now got to find something to blame on.. so wont be so sad

bro, if its possible why not rescpae ur tank? then can catch out all the crabs and pests. if not u will have to worry putting another clam in.

[Lester]

total agree... this pest some time are veri troublesome.....

[Vili_Shark]

Ya have to ID what crab and mantis ya have, some of them even though the name have benefits.

If ya wanna be on the safe side, trapping crabs is easier than Mantis, but you should start by starving your tank for a day or two, then, at night putting a glass on the bottom 45 degrees with a chunk of shrimps on the bottom of it.

Lights off.

Every 20 mins or so go and check what's going on with a flash light with a RED beam.

I think you'll get many.

For the Mantis it might be a little more complicated, check how much is the AB pest trap, they are working nice on mantis.

[Zac]

bro, if its possible why not rescpae ur tank? then can catch out all the crabs and pests. if not u will have to worry putting another clam in.

hmm.. bro just did a rescape caught ard 15 crabs ....

but.......... no mantis le..

[Zac]

bro vili_shark i did tried using a trap for the crabs and mantis.. but no catch for two days... finally today just decided i should gat rid of them no matter what ....

i took out all the LRs total ard 100 kgs (back ache) and soak in 1.008 water

one by one and it still refuse to come out.. but with patience and determination i search the rocks and got 15 crabs but no mantis .. just done rescapping... feel like dying now

[Vili_Shark]

I wouldnt do that if I were ya.

But it's done already.

It's just that ya kill a lot of vital organism and ya dont even have a positive ID on wat you're looking for.

Is it bad? is it good? did it kill your clam?

Not all crabs are enemies, and also not all mantis are enemies, there are some dwarf ones that never grows large enough to kill anything significent in the tank.

When ya're not sure what you're looking for, I'd never do such drastic action like you just did.

However, I hope it worked for you.

[Zac]

hmmm... just wanted to be on the safe side

[jasyu]

well, mine just went up to heaven in less than 24hrs........for no apparent reason. i have decided to stop having clams for the moment though. Good luck bro....