racrumrine
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I did a few searches; but, I didn't quite find what I was looking for.
I just came back from a two week vacation to find a much larger hole in my gold teardrop maxima.
I have had the clam for about a year under 400W SE MH lighting.
The clam has always been near a M. doreensis anemone which occasionally brushes it. Is that bad? I have never noticed a negative reaction before.
The clam had it's foot attached to a half shell buried in the sand. However, when I got back from vacation, I also noticed that the shell was not closing on one side and the clam was tilted over a bit.
When I picked up the clam to reposition it, I noticed that it had partially taken the half shell into it's shell. Thus, even if it wanted to, it couldn't fully close it's shell. Although the clam did it to itself, it looked as if someone tried to jam the shell into the clam.
Since I didn't want to stress the clam out anymore than necessary, I didn't try to move or reposition the half shell. I set the clam upright a little further from the anemone and I'm hoping that it will eject the half shell on it's own so that it can properly close its shell when it needs to.
Have any of you heard of this before? Do you agree that the clam will probably take care of this on it's own?
Other than the much larger hole and not being able to fully close it's shell, the clam looks normal to me. I'm hoping that it will take care of it's problems on its own.
Thanks in advance for your prompt response,
Roy
I just came back from a two week vacation to find a much larger hole in my gold teardrop maxima.
I have had the clam for about a year under 400W SE MH lighting.
The clam has always been near a M. doreensis anemone which occasionally brushes it. Is that bad? I have never noticed a negative reaction before.
The clam had it's foot attached to a half shell buried in the sand. However, when I got back from vacation, I also noticed that the shell was not closing on one side and the clam was tilted over a bit.
When I picked up the clam to reposition it, I noticed that it had partially taken the half shell into it's shell. Thus, even if it wanted to, it couldn't fully close it's shell. Although the clam did it to itself, it looked as if someone tried to jam the shell into the clam.
Since I didn't want to stress the clam out anymore than necessary, I didn't try to move or reposition the half shell. I set the clam upright a little further from the anemone and I'm hoping that it will eject the half shell on it's own so that it can properly close its shell when it needs to.
Have any of you heard of this before? Do you agree that the clam will probably take care of this on it's own?
Other than the much larger hole and not being able to fully close it's shell, the clam looks normal to me. I'm hoping that it will take care of it's problems on its own.
Thanks in advance for your prompt response,
Roy
