Garage1217
GET OFF MY LAWN
Just wanted to post up what is common info with some but not know to many. The predator snails "pyramidellid" are sneaky little bassturds. They can kill a clam faster than you could imagine.
My sad story...
I had a beatiful crocea for about 5-6 months and it was healthy and loving life! I was finally able to keep a clam as I am running mh now. I walked into my LFS and found another amazing electric crocea! I had to have it. My tank while small is immaculate and all levels are great so I bought another one as I maintain the system good enough to keep up with two small clams...
Got it home and it never fully extended. Sort of looked pinched. Within 5 days it died. I figured it was just a loss. Few days later my original crocea looked pinched and kept flinching, not just with light changes... but would twitch.. sort of like a nervous twitch.
That night, I went to feed my candy corals and I saw them. Tons of little white snails on the ridges of my loved crocea. I had no idea what they were but I knew they could not be good news. I took my clam out of the tank as fast as I could while taking a couple of pics to document it. I removed all the snails with tweezers, washed it, used a toothpick to get some micro ones out of the cracks.. Stayed up all night checking on the clam to make sure none were coming back. Within hours more of them showed up and I got them off. Over the next few days I never found another one. My clam never recovered and within the week died.
weeks have gone by and I noticed a turbo snail that had not moved. Flipped it over and found two tiny pyrams were going after it. Little BASTARDOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Don't think I have EVER had a pest that I am this ticked off about.
My sad story...
I had a beatiful crocea for about 5-6 months and it was healthy and loving life! I was finally able to keep a clam as I am running mh now. I walked into my LFS and found another amazing electric crocea! I had to have it. My tank while small is immaculate and all levels are great so I bought another one as I maintain the system good enough to keep up with two small clams...
Got it home and it never fully extended. Sort of looked pinched. Within 5 days it died. I figured it was just a loss. Few days later my original crocea looked pinched and kept flinching, not just with light changes... but would twitch.. sort of like a nervous twitch.
That night, I went to feed my candy corals and I saw them. Tons of little white snails on the ridges of my loved crocea. I had no idea what they were but I knew they could not be good news. I took my clam out of the tank as fast as I could while taking a couple of pics to document it. I removed all the snails with tweezers, washed it, used a toothpick to get some micro ones out of the cracks.. Stayed up all night checking on the clam to make sure none were coming back. Within hours more of them showed up and I got them off. Over the next few days I never found another one. My clam never recovered and within the week died.
weeks have gone by and I noticed a turbo snail that had not moved. Flipped it over and found two tiny pyrams were going after it. Little BASTARDOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Don't think I have EVER had a pest that I am this ticked off about.
