firechild
Premium Member
On Saturday night I returned from a month long trip to the GBR eager to see how much my corals had grown while I was away.
Unfortunately I came home to a rotten smelling cess pool that was once my pride and joy. All I could see through the thick layer of green on the glass was the white skeletons of my corals and 2 clownfish swimming round. There was a layer of white froth on the surface of the water and I realised that the return pump had stopped working. It is currently the middle of winter and I believe the temperature of my tank had dropped to under 10C. I assumed the worst and figured that everything had died so I began cleaning up the tank on the verge of selling everything off and restarting a tank at some stage in the future. As I cleaned the glass, I noticed that not 1 of my 7 clams were showing any signs of stress and were perfectly healthy. The water was about 14C when I got home which is still extremely cold for reef inhabitants.
This goes to show that a healthy clam can live through some pretty drastic changes and come through unscathed. I have always been a believer that clams are much tougher than many people give them credit for and this confirms it.
Unfortunately I came home to a rotten smelling cess pool that was once my pride and joy. All I could see through the thick layer of green on the glass was the white skeletons of my corals and 2 clownfish swimming round. There was a layer of white froth on the surface of the water and I realised that the return pump had stopped working. It is currently the middle of winter and I believe the temperature of my tank had dropped to under 10C. I assumed the worst and figured that everything had died so I began cleaning up the tank on the verge of selling everything off and restarting a tank at some stage in the future. As I cleaned the glass, I noticed that not 1 of my 7 clams were showing any signs of stress and were perfectly healthy. The water was about 14C when I got home which is still extremely cold for reef inhabitants.
This goes to show that a healthy clam can live through some pretty drastic changes and come through unscathed. I have always been a believer that clams are much tougher than many people give them credit for and this confirms it.