Tigger240
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Ive posted a link in the clam forum and for those who joined us thank you!
Anyway, im starting over. Im having live rock and inverts (specificly urcines, cleaner shrimp (20), and a clam or two - (let me clarify clams would be added to the display after being qt'd, then the 8 week countdown would start) in my main tank without fish at the normal salinity 1.026 ish for 8 weeks. Also all fish that are / will be in my possesion will undergo a 6 week to 8 week hypo treatment. my goal here is simple really, an ick free tank, forever.
However this got me to thinking. This methodology is for ick only, and maybe some other parasites/protozonas that im not currently aware of. Also if a fish gets sick in qt i can successfuly treat him.
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My question; ok, but how about qting clams? they get pinched mantle and a fresh water dip (im assuming) kills the protozoan that causes it. what if a sterile tank setup was provided, and the clam was fresh water dipped before entry into the quartine tank and upon exiting the qt tank before entry into a virgin main display tank (ie never had clams). there would be no protozoan and there for you would hopefully have no pinched mantle, unless it was successfuly able to thrive on the live rock ( for arguements sake lets say it is present on the lr in the display tank ) without a clam host. how about hyposalinity on clams?
i will continue to read and post what i find. just bouncing ideas and thoughts around, as ive lost some clams, and would like to end the cycle of pm, ick, ect....
Anyway, im starting over. Im having live rock and inverts (specificly urcines, cleaner shrimp (20), and a clam or two - (let me clarify clams would be added to the display after being qt'd, then the 8 week countdown would start) in my main tank without fish at the normal salinity 1.026 ish for 8 weeks. Also all fish that are / will be in my possesion will undergo a 6 week to 8 week hypo treatment. my goal here is simple really, an ick free tank, forever.
However this got me to thinking. This methodology is for ick only, and maybe some other parasites/protozonas that im not currently aware of. Also if a fish gets sick in qt i can successfuly treat him.
(skip to here):
My question; ok, but how about qting clams? they get pinched mantle and a fresh water dip (im assuming) kills the protozoan that causes it. what if a sterile tank setup was provided, and the clam was fresh water dipped before entry into the quartine tank and upon exiting the qt tank before entry into a virgin main display tank (ie never had clams). there would be no protozoan and there for you would hopefully have no pinched mantle, unless it was successfuly able to thrive on the live rock ( for arguements sake lets say it is present on the lr in the display tank ) without a clam host. how about hyposalinity on clams?
i will continue to read and post what i find. just bouncing ideas and thoughts around, as ive lost some clams, and would like to end the cycle of pm, ick, ect....
