clams

[rammee]

Hi i have two clams some thing is puting holes in the mantal has any one this happen

 

[2crazyreefers]

Check around the mantles you may have small snails attathed that eat them. If you do then pull your clams out every few days a keep getting rid of the snails till there gone.

 

[mbbuna]

Re: clams

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6766684#post6766684 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by rammee
Hi i have two clams some thing is puting holes in the mantal has any one this happen

tell us more about what is going on. and pics would help a ton.

repost here.http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=41

 

[Fmellish]

If I remember correctly from my research, clams can carry a ton of little intruders. Dips in (something I forget), can get the critters to come out.

go to the forum area of www.clamsdirect.com and they'll help you.

Cheers
Josh

 

[WorldNation]

lugols solution sipd work? would kents tectra-D work?

 

[rammee]

thanks for the help i have tryed posting pic it all ways says file to big any help ther

 

[rammee]

Hi may be i wrote the wrong part of the clam i think it's called byssal gland the part that has all the colour in you can only see it win it is wide open

 

[reverendmaynard]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6769433#post6769433 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by rammee
thanks for the help i have tryed posting pic it all ways says file to big any help ther

crop and/or compress the photos. If you have MS office, right-click on the picture file and, under the open with... menu, choose Microsoft Office Picture Manager. In the picture menu, use crop to cut out only the part of the picture that is needed, then use Compress Pictures, and choose Web Pages. Depending on the picture size and complexity, this will shrink down the file size to .1 to .01 of original. save or save as... and try again.

 

[reefkoi]

you are correct it is the mantle thats the colorful part. the byssal is on the bottom, holds the clam to the substrate when it is young. Yeah see if you can shrink your pic down and atleast put it in your gallery so we could see it. Also I believe the snails bore through the actual clam shell, not the mantle but I could be wrong. Or do you have a "window" in the color? which means a loss of the symbiotic algae making it clear? Those usually appear to be round also.
chris

 

[Dubbin1]

Just setup a free photobucket.com account and use that to host your pictures. That way you will not have to worry about resizing them.

 

[reverendmaynard]

True. Photobucket will auto resize any pic over 512k.

 

[Markk96]

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