Astrea snail fell in clam

[skoiboy]

Yesterday while adding some Astrea snails to the tank one went right into the clams mouth. The clam over the last 24 hours has closed particularly and never opened all the way since (while not fully closed, the mouth is not open). Should I let nature run it's course or should I be worried and force the clam open and go searching?

I'm a little worried because it doesn't seem like a Astrea snail would be particularly easy to just 'spit' out if the clam wanted to. It could be crawling on the inside walls.

 

[Amazon4]

what kind of clam? It actually fit inside?

As long as the clam is open I think I'dleave it alone. Anything else is just going to stress it further.

I imagine the snail is going to do it's best to get out.

 

[skoiboy]

This is a Tridacna maxima clam. I'm really leaning toward letting them work it out so we'll see. I would imagine in the wild a clam doesn't die every time something falls in it's mouth...

Just figured I'd get a backup opinion. I appreciate it.

 

[Mentat]

Re: Astrea snail fell in clam

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14882590#post14882590 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by skoiboy
...Should I let nature run it's course or should I be worried and force the clam open and go searching?...

The last thing you would want to do is to play Dr. Forceful on a clam.

 

[Fsurocks99]

I would think that clams have some kind of mechanism that would allow it to get the snail out. For example, one of my friend's croceas had a very small piece of rubble rock fall into its mouth. And that was a while back and the clam is just fine. So, I would let the clam do its thing.

 

[zack1a]

he'll probably just turn the snail into a pearl

 

[E.intheC]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14909926#post14909926 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by zack1a
he'll probably just turn the snail into a pearl

:lol: