New clam id and is this pinched mantle?

[hansonfam]

HI there.

We just purchased this clam yesterday and this just started looking like this today. Although i did not notice it when i bought it maybe it was there.

Should i be concerned?

Also what species is it. I am fairly new to clams. It has 5 shutes on the shell.

Thanks
Lisa


If you look on the right side towards the back. It looks like it is scrunched up and turning up.

 

[skinz78]

looks like a squamosa and yes possibly the begining signs of pm

 

[hansonfam]

We'll i think i found the issue. I pulled of a baby carpet looking nem right off the shute directly under where it was looking a little crinkled up. Seems un crinkled now.

There is another little nem on one of the other shutes farther down that i have to get off but i am trying to figure out how to do it and not kill the nem. They look like little Stichodactyla tapetum's. They aren't manjo's or aptasia and they do have a pink foot and very colourful.

Otherwise hopefully that was the problem and i will give it a couple days to see how it reacts.

Lisa

 

[Echidna09]

You don't have to take the anemone off unless it is bothering the clam. He will probably move after a while anyway.

 

[a4twenty]

100 % squamie, do you have a top down shot?


and out of curiousity, are you running any phos remover?


i'm kepping my fingers crossed too

 

[hansonfam]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10808296#post10808296 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by a4twenty
100 % squamie, do you have a top down shot?


and out of curiousity, are you running any phos remover?


i'm kepping my fingers crossed too

We'll all looks good now.When the lights came on there were no crinckles or up turning. He is getting a little flow that blows the mantle up abit but nothing major.

I will try for a top down shot this evening.....

And no i am not surrently running it i normally do but after reading some threads about that i am not sure if i want to anymore.

Lisa

 

[ezcompany]

you can run phosphate remover, just make sure you have a lot of carbon too

 

[Canarygirl]

is the white kind of PO4 absorber different than GFO, as far as clams are concerned? What is the issue, anyway?