pinched mantle danger to anything else or just clams?

[rtbm]

so I bought a small clam at Imac. My gut was telling me no but I did anyway. The little guy has succeeded in delivering pinched mantle to my other three clams. while I hate the thought of not doing whatever I can to save them, they are all attached to larger rocks on the bottom of my tank so removal is pretty much not an option. Sadly I fear I will lose them all but in the process learn a valuable lesson about clam selection. I have two questions.
first is pinched mantle a threat to any of the other tank inhabitants coral and fish mainly? and if I do end up loosing them all is there a time period before introducing another clam into my tank safely?

 

[chadfarmer]

just clams from what i heard

 

[Unarce]

Same thing happened to me a couple of months ago.

I currently have 4 clams (maxima, crocea, and 2 hippopus). My maxima and crocea developed pinched mantle shortly after introducing the 2 hippopus'. The crocea was the only one attached to a rock, so I carefully sliced the threads with a knife.

I gave all 4 a 30 minute FW bath. It only took one FW dip to cure the crocea. I don't know how PM effects hippopus since it doesn't extend it's mantle over the shell. I only needed one FW dip for those 3.

It took four, 30 minute FW baths to cure the maxima, with the last two dips including Seachem's Reef Dip (iodine-based).

 

[rtbm]

I may give that a try if I can get them off. I did move my maxima once by slicing the foot and he made it so I may go for it. thanks.

 

[Unarce]

Good luck!

If your maxima also has trouble fighting it initially, I waited 5 days between each of the 4 dips I did on mine. So, don't allow him to attach right away, in case the treatment has to last for a couple of weeks.

 

[rtbm]

well I know this isn't the clam forum but I must say after about 20 minutes in a freshwater bath all three clams look suprisingly better. So thanks for not letting me just sit back and watch my clams die. I apprieciate the fact that no one even answered the question about how long to wait after they all die.

 

[turbonegro]

I just saw a good video on http://www.theimac.org/ about clams. It is about 45mins long. In this video they talk about pinched mantle. When you get on the web sight scroll down to Barry Neigut "Keeping and caring for tridacnas".