Anyone else losing their clams one by one?

[isseym328]

So this morning before I went to work I lost one of my clams for no apparent reason (died overnight). About two weeks previous I lost a clam and it was the same. Now I'm looking at my 4 other clams and their mantle is curled up and not looking very healthy. I'm wondering if there's another infection going on like the PM from a few years back.

Everything else is the tank is fine (sps, lps, fishes). I have 400w radiums and one of the clams I've had since the start of this tank almost a year ago. I dose plenty of calc/alk and do weekly water changes. I do not see any snails on the shells and there's no predators in the tank that I know of. In the last 3 months I have added 4 clams due to the huge shipments of maximas coming in.

Is anyone losing their clams recently by infection?

 

[Maximus Clammus]

Can you post some pic's?

 

[a4twenty]

i agree, pics are needed to properly diagnose the clam.

 

[isseym328]

I actually took some pics last night but didn't have time to u/l them. I will do later tonight so you guys can see what kind of problem they are having. Thanks.

 

[unbreakable]

egh..reminds me of what happened to me a year back, turned out I had pyram snails and they killed all my clams before I could do anything about them

 

[robcampman]

Last month 2 clams died, then i removed a big bristleworm.. since then my last clam opens up beautifully. But i'm still a bit scared i have a pyramid snail attack..

try to tease it of its foundation (bysis) , and then move it unerwater i a clear plastic container. then you can look at its feet to see if it has pyramid snails.. these snails are nocturnal so try to do this overnight..

 

[isseym328]

I'll try that tonight and see if the snails are the culprit. It's possible they are since I have been checking the clams during the day.

 

[isseym328]

Here's a few pics for you guys to look at. I separated them hoping maybe they'll recover but it doesn't look good. Let me know if you know what's wrong with them:

 

[Maximus Clammus]

That looks like PM to me, do a 20 min FW dip on one and see how it go's. If the clam starts looking better say 2 hours later then try the others. Use a turkey baster to gently blow water all over the clam to loosen anything that may be attached.

FW dips are very stressful so be careful, you can kill the clam if it is too stressful.

 

[isseym328]

Yeah not sure about 20 mins but I dipped them for a few mins. If they are ok tomorrow I will dip them longer. I bought these 6 clams from 3 diff locations so it's going to be hard to figure out where the PM might have came from. I already lost two of them....