Derasa issues again..?!?! Suggestions...?!?!

[Jester]

I moved everything to my new 29 gallon tank recently and since then (maybe a little before), have been noticing my Derasa not looking to great... here are a few pics... any help or suggestions..?!?! thank you in advance...

Jester

 

[skinz78]

that darn clam, I remember your issue's before but I don't remember what you did to remedy them? It looks the same as it did before to me? Are you running carbon on your tank? What fish and inverts do you have? What are your param's?

 

[Jester]

Heheeee... It does look like last time... I did a fw dip and spot fed in a bowl last time.. Right now I am running some sort of carbon phos mix... All i have are a few hermits, pepperment shrimp, 2 clowns and one damsel... I'll check my water tonight and post them... Thanks for the reply...

 

[WayneY]

I would watch out for those pepperment shrimp. I had some once that always irritated my clams. They would get on their shells and pick at the mantle so I got rid of them.They seemed to do it at night as I recall. Just a thought

 

[skinz78]

You may take a bottle and fill it full of hole's, cut in half and place it over the clam to isolate it. Do this and see if it clears up. I am thinking since it has done this before and the fwd cleared it up it may be pm. I know pm is rare in derasa though so I am not totally convinced yet. Although doing a fwd in the past wouldn't have stopped the shrimp from irritating it either. I say do the bottle and if it doesn't clear up by sunday possibly do a fwd again.