What do you do with a pinched mantle?

[plateboy3293]

My maxima about three inches started to curl up on one side. So how do you do the freashwater dip for them?:rollface: :rollface:

 

[onehundred20]

im pretty sure you just match the PH of the tank to the freshwater and dip them, not sure how long though....anyone else?

 

[d4a2n0k]

Yes, take RO/DI water and raise the PH and temperature to your tanks and drop them in.

Ive done dips for 10-20 minutes at a time but it just masks PM for a few weeks. The clams always eventually die from it.

There is still no cure for PM.

 

[SDguy]

Wasn't there something written up on this in ReefKeeping or Advanced Aquarist or something...IIRC it did cure them, no?

 

[d4a2n0k]

Ive done a FW dip to a number of clams after I introduced my "last" clam. I just had to get that last clam in there. That clam took out 4 other clams I had for years.

The dips seem to help for a few weeks but it always came back. My Derasa lasted the longest but it also eventually gave in to PM.

SDguy, do you have a link? In reading the clam forum, it seems that my experience is the norm. Very few, if any have been cured. Last I heard, Barry at Clams Direct was working on a treatment for the protozoa.