my dying clam

[Jimnorris]

Clams are tuff! Under the right condistions. Go to my website and read about "SCAR". Clams can also catch diseases and die. IMO if you have several clams in your tank and one does catch an infection you must get it out! Kinda like ick with fish. Chances are if one gets it most will. Clams have to be fed!!!!!!! The smaller the more food required. Lighting also comes into play alot. BUT you can IMO give too much light!!!! of course then there are creatures that prey on clams. Then there is farmed raise clams VS wild. I buy and import clams which are farm raised in the Marshall Islands. ORA does too---just got in 12 maximas and 12 ORA frags and some black clownfish???? Clams are wonderful creatures don't give up.
Jim

[Jimnorris]

I think there was a problem with a large shipment of wild clams that was shipped into LA by one large wholesaler. These shipment of clams were infected and then spread to the story in RC. Notice of late the infection is rarely talked about.
Jim

[Jimnorris]

I watch all the talk specially during that time with great interest. Sadly many people lost many clams. Luckly I lost none. That time all my clams were shipped right from the Marshall Island farm to me. Therefore bypassing the whole LA area! I also think that maybe a general sense the area is a huge meat market. If several hundred (thousand) clams are brought into LA everyone buys them there and then resells them all over the world. One of the reason I really want to go to LA is to see the different systems. The old saying can one bad apple spoil the bunch??? To me it appear so.
Jim

[TexasState]

I'm sure there are valid reason, but "Those who can't hang, make/use excuses, after excuses."

Some Clam live in the mud bed, I'm sure that there would be a heck lot more bacteria/virus where they originally lived.

[Tim Marvin]

I have two tanks that keep clams great, but my corner tank isn't very friendly to them. I'm not sure why as there are no parasites in the tank, and it grows acropora and other corals fine? As soon as a I put a clam in there they don't open quite as well and slowly start to close more and more each day. As soon as I move it back to the other tanks BOOM, opened right back to normal. The tank has good current, lights, and water parameters. I am guessing, but I would say it either has something in the water that is not measurable or something missing from the water...?? It just happens the way I look at it. Some tanks grow certain things and not others.. Some people grow xenia like weeds while others can't get it to survive no matter what they do...

[ziggyrocket]

I am in agreement with tim. I have been doing some comparisons between saltwater taken from key west, and synthetically produced Instant ocean by aquarium systems. I dont think the argument is what the synthetic does have, but what it dosent. There are plenty of differences, but i wouldnt be concerned with things in exponential ppm, but more like the absence of Molybdenium. I dont know much from a clam standpoint..as to what trace elements really make a difference in how well they prosper, im just lookin at it from water chemistry...and i think you should try to mimic their natural circumstances as much as possible, without goin overboard like me. One thing i have noticed with the help of some more experienced reefers...is that sometimes it is better to just leave it alone...and let nature take its course...our own little captive piece of nature that is. So maybe thats the solution...the clams were homesick?