Clams die without water change

[jackz]

The giant clam is alone in a 6L salt tank with no filtration but with sunlight yet it died. Do they release gametes when this happen to them?

 

[jayball]

Here is some reading on their spawning habit (The answer is no.)http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2009/8/inverts

What made you think that keeping a tricinadia in that condition was a good idea? I only ask because you said "yet it died"

 

[dendrite]

The giant clam is alone in a 6L salt tank with no filtration but with sunlight yet it died. Do they release gametes when this happen to them?

and why would you think that keeping a giant clam in 6 liters of water is a good idea, filtered or circulated or not?

 

[jackz]

if the clam was releasing some sort of fleshy or meaty stuff that might have turned black within the day

 

[dendrite]

that was necrotic tissue. Part of the dead clam

 

[jackz]

but why are some of the living clams spewing that out?

 

[Tripod1404]

but why are some of the living clams spewing that out?

becouse it is dying. Same what why dying people sometimes vomit blood.

 

[jackz]

that is bad because they are fed with algae-filled sea water but others are totally fine

 

[elFloyd]

How many clams do you have in the 6L tank? How long have they been in there?

 

[Monkeyfish]

If the tank is truly only 6 liters, I'm guessing that none of the clams will be there for very long.