herring_fish
Crazy Designer
My 6 week old maxima just died. It looked less than happy one day but I didn’t pay any attention because it wasn’t that bad. The next day the mantle (or lips or what ever you call them) were pulled in and I could tell that it was a goner.
My tank was re-started 6 month ago and every parameter is great. Two or three weeks ago, I went through an issue with very low salinity, do to a top off malfunction and then an over heating problem. They were quickly fixed but I lost some mushrooms and SPSs. The max weathered the storm just fine.
Fixing the salinity problem effectively changed out 50 gallons from my 130 tank with a 55 gallon sump full to the top with coral rubble. Understandably, I was constantly testing for the two weeks prior to the death of the clam and every parameter was great.
In retrospect a couple of days before it's down turn, the maxima closed a little when I fed powdered filter feeder food. Normally, it didnn’t react negatively.
Through out the one month that I had my 2 and a half inch clam, it was sitting on the sad bed at the bottom of a 24 inch deep tank. I have a 250 watt 10K metal halide lamp above it. It always seemed to be turned more than 45 degrees away from straight up. Can they turn them selves? Anyway, I turned it straight up a couple of times and it ends up back below 45 degrees again, toward the water flow.
Those are all the relevant factors that I can think of. What do you think that it was that killed it and do you think that another one would die as well? If not, how would I chang e the outcome?
My tank was re-started 6 month ago and every parameter is great. Two or three weeks ago, I went through an issue with very low salinity, do to a top off malfunction and then an over heating problem. They were quickly fixed but I lost some mushrooms and SPSs. The max weathered the storm just fine.
Fixing the salinity problem effectively changed out 50 gallons from my 130 tank with a 55 gallon sump full to the top with coral rubble. Understandably, I was constantly testing for the two weeks prior to the death of the clam and every parameter was great.
In retrospect a couple of days before it's down turn, the maxima closed a little when I fed powdered filter feeder food. Normally, it didnn’t react negatively.
Through out the one month that I had my 2 and a half inch clam, it was sitting on the sad bed at the bottom of a 24 inch deep tank. I have a 250 watt 10K metal halide lamp above it. It always seemed to be turned more than 45 degrees away from straight up. Can they turn them selves? Anyway, I turned it straight up a couple of times and it ends up back below 45 degrees again, toward the water flow.
Those are all the relevant factors that I can think of. What do you think that it was that killed it and do you think that another one would die as well? If not, how would I chang e the outcome?
