my clam disappeared

[jrodriguez]

my clam started not wanting to come out and for some odd reason it stop moving. even light or fishe that swam by it would not bother them. well this morning my little clam about 2 in dissapeared and my big 3 1/2 clam is doing the same thing what happened can i prevent this for my pig one?

[ErikH]

tell us about your system. You need to have pristine water for clams, and lighting must also be sufficient or the clams will slowly starve. I just picked up some Phyto from B&B to feed my little croacea... Give us the total rundown of your system.

[Iplantz]

Explain dissappeared. If it isn't reacting to shadows thats not a good sign. If its impending doom is coming be wary of death spawning as it can foul water badly.

[Troutmasters02]

I agree with Iplantz, a clam without motion is a clam on it's death bed. If water quality is not the problem, then food abundance is the problem. Provide plenty of phyto foods.

[jrodriguez]

29 gallon setup 50/50 light also have maroon clownfish pair and yellow tang with a royal gramma and two peppermint shrimp all levels are good salt at 1.023 have three condylactis anenomes a trumpet coral with ten heads kenya colts and some xenias that all do awsome and actually started splitting and about fifteen pounds of live rocks with coraline algae and mushrooms that expand to about 2 inches and also growing in our tank copepods and two star fish that popped up and some green star polyps and white star polyps, everything is great just until the clams that started to not want to pop up and out they were only open half way and didnt react to shadows very well.

[caferacermike]

They sound to be on their death beds.

I'd recommend a higher output of light than a small PC bulb.

[jrodriguez]

Well I would like to thank everyone for their input I will really use the information given to me once again thanks.