Reefkeeping Magazine cover photo- PM CITY!

[jmaneyapanda]

I couldnt believe the picture when I saw it. It's like putting a picture of of tang on there with HLLE (and almost as bad as Marine Depot releasing there catalog with a close-up pic on the cover of an acro with red bugs).

 

[DarkXerox]

oh man I just saw it also. with all those nice TOTM photos, im shocked they didn't use one of those.

 

[jsl6v8]

thats pm? What are you looking at that indicates its PM? Not questioning your call here I just am new to clams and am now extremely weary for PM but I don't know what to look for.

 

[RobSW1]

i saw that and i thought something was wrong.......that is a horrible way of advertising.

 

[jmaneyapanda]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9889840#post9889840 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by jsl6v8
thats pm? What are you looking at that indicates its PM? Not questioning your call here I just am new to clams and am now extremely weary for PM but I don't know what to look for.

See how the mantle is all wavy and undulated? This is the mantle tissue curling upward and inward. This is atypical, and is a telltale sign of PM.

 

[acroporas]

It does not look like pinched mantle to me. Just looks like a healthy crocea in high water flow.

 

[ezcompany]

looks like PM to me

 

[Elite]

I saw that too when RC was down. I don't know much about PM but that clam doesn't look right.

 

[jmaneyapanda]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9897445#post9897445 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by acroporas
It does not look like pinched mantle to me. Just looks like a healthy crocea in high water flow.

Thats just what people with PM in denial say!

I find it hard to belive that strong flow would only make the mantle ripple in those tiny little sections, while the mentle 2 mm over is flat. And the current doing so from both side equally?

 

[smithcreek]

I've seen clams that looked that way and the owners told me they've been like that for a very long time, so maybe PM can be cronic as well as deadly.

 

[acroporas]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9907358#post9907358 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by smithcreek
I've seen clams that looked that way and the owners told me they've been like that for a very long time, so maybe PM can be cronic as well as deadly.

Or maby that is not pinched mantle disease......

 

[smithcreek]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9919378#post9919378 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by acroporas
Or maby that is not pinched mantle disease......

Yeah, so the symptom of having a mantle with a pinched appearance can be caused by something other than the disease called pinched mantle. I guess that could be it too.

 

[acroporas]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9919637#post9919637 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by smithcreek
Yeah, so the symptom of having a mantle with a pinched appearance can be caused by something other than the disease called pinched mantle. I guess that could be it too.

So all white bubble corals are suffering from bleaching?

 

[smithcreek]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9919695#post9919695 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by acroporas
So all white bubble corals are suffering from bleaching?

I don't get it. I'm agreeing with you that the clam pictured in Reefkeeping and the clams I've seen that "appear" to have pm for years might not. It just may be a similar outward appearance caused by something entirely different. Wasn't being sarcastic if that's what you thought.

 

[acroporas]

Ok, sorry. I thought you were being sarcastic.

 

[jsl6v8]

come on guys, fighting on the internet is like playing in the special olympics, even if you win you are still a R37@9 (Censored for the little ears out there)