Crocea sliming?

[anathema]

I have what appears to be a completely healthy crocea clam. However, it always has strings of bubbles trapped in slime hanging off the edges of the mantle. I have never experienced this before with a clam, and I am wondering if anyone else has?

 

[mbbuna]

how long have you had the clam? can you post a pic?

 

[smcnally]

Sounds like Vermetid Snails to me. I've had them on my clams before.

 

[chemisfun11]

Yeah, I've noticed this at times too. I'd take a pic and post it, but my wife broke my camera! Uhgg! Please post a pic if you can, and can these Vermetid snails be eliminated?

 

[NewSchool04]

you need to scrape them off the shell. they look like dark curly cues. Take a knife and make sure you cut them off, get underneath them and cut them off.

 

[anathema]

Hmm

Hmm

I have had the calm approximately 5 months, and it has slimed like this since I got it. It shows a white band of new growth on the rim, and I see zero sign of any parasites on it. To all outward appearences it's healthy. It has a clean band of white growth on the edge of it's shell, and no organisms I can see growing there. I cannot get under the clam as I set it in a depression in the rock and it has attached.

I had Crocea clams in a previous tank, and don't remember them sliming like this.

I do have a 6line in the tank, would this be helping to control a parasite I can't see for the moment?

 

[anathema]

BTW, I don't see any vermetid snails, have many in the tank tho, none slime across the clam that I can see.