clam happy or otherwise?

[jnb]

pic below I moved my crocea to a smaller tank yesterday - one tied in and sharing my main tank sump. All seemed well - except this evening I looked up and the new tank is really cloudy and the clam is spurting white stuff over and over and over

in effect, the only real changes were the lights from being 24 inches down from 250 20k bulbs to being 13 inches under about 200 watts of cf (temp till new light come in) and the actual move (out of water for 5 seconds)

the water was the same.

Is this clam just shooting sperm, etc - some of was glumpy white, some was powerdy white?

there seems to be lots of particles floating around - otherwise I suppose the clam looks ok

 

[SPSFiend]

Looks like the clam is spawning

 

[jmaneyapanda]

Yes- but spawning isnt necessarily a good thing. You stressed the clam, which is why it spawned. How absolutely sure are you the lighting was the only change? Usually temp, salinity, alk, or similar causes a reaction like this, but I guess light could do it also. There is now a lot of potential pollutant in your tank, so I would suggest a water change and carbon, and a heavily running skimmer.

 

[jnb]

pretty sure the water was the same - I am sure the ph was it was right on and I used that to conclude that other parameters were right on - I made new water in the new tank and then put it on line with the larger tank for a day - the skimmer did not go crazy - I think my overall system is large enough to absorb what the clam did - am guessing the other corals feasted on it to, skimmer will pull the rest - this AM everything looks right and the clam is wants me to let it smoke a cig.

 

[onecrzyboi4u]

doesn't the spawning of a clam feed the other corals in the tank? so why would u want to let it go to waste.. i'm confused about this

 

[ezcompany]

it might feed the other corals, but it will probably put out more than your tank can handle. unless you have a 500 gallon and your clam is a tiny crocea, you should prepare for water changes and carbon.

 

[jnb]

All indications are that everything is fine. I did not change water but was my skimmer was a little more busy than usual yesterday. My corals seemed more open than usual indicating to me they liked what was going on durng the night following the dusk spawning. I guess on a smaller system I would have done a water change