rdmpe
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I've had a small crocea for a few months now and it has been doing great, looking good and obvious growth along the rim of the shell.
I recently added a derasa, and just about the same time I started dosing about 1 mL / day of seachem flourish iron supplement to help my macro out a little bit.
I noticed right away that the clam mantles had some parts that didn't flatten out the way they normally should. I had no idea that iron could possibly be connected to this untill doing some reading here about it.
So I obviously stopped dosing iron, and am running a bunch of carbon in a canister filter to try to pull the iron back out of the system. Hopefully between the cheato in the fuge and the carbon, the iron will not last long.
I have not done a fwd yet, since I hate to add more stress to the clams, but I sure don't want to lose them either. What do you guys think? Here are the best pictures I could come up with so far...
Crocea - pinched at the left side
Derasa - pinched at the far left
I recently added a derasa, and just about the same time I started dosing about 1 mL / day of seachem flourish iron supplement to help my macro out a little bit.
I noticed right away that the clam mantles had some parts that didn't flatten out the way they normally should. I had no idea that iron could possibly be connected to this untill doing some reading here about it.
So I obviously stopped dosing iron, and am running a bunch of carbon in a canister filter to try to pull the iron back out of the system. Hopefully between the cheato in the fuge and the carbon, the iron will not last long.
I have not done a fwd yet, since I hate to add more stress to the clams, but I sure don't want to lose them either. What do you guys think? Here are the best pictures I could come up with so far...
Crocea - pinched at the left side



Derasa - pinched at the far left



