What is my clam doing????

[BLKTANG]

 

[a4twenty]

spawning, sign of stress / survival instinct. what have done or changed today?

you need to clean out your skimmer and make sure it is running 100%. prepare a water change and run some carbon, if you are not already. they can foul the water pretty bad and even cause other clams to spawn. ( multiplying your problem )

 

[BLKTANG]

Here is another pic. My nassarious snails are going bananas like its food or something.

 

[a4twenty]

no doubt, your fish will be eating it up too.

 

[mbbuna]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9803821#post9803821 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by a4twenty
spawning, sign of stress / survival instinct. what have done or changed today?

you need to clean out your skimmer and make sure it is running 100%. prepare a water change and run some carbon, ( multiplying your problem )

 

[BLKTANG]

Ok got my skimmer cranked up skimming super wet.how long does this ritiual usually continue for?& NSW ready to go.

 

[Rovert]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9803821#post9803821 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by a4twenty
spawning, sign of stress / survival instinct. what have done or changed today?

you need to clean out your skimmer and make sure it is running 100%. prepare a water change and run some carbon, if you are not already. they can foul the water pretty bad and even cause other clams to spawn. ( multiplying your problem )

I was led to believe that often a spawning event was a good thing, as it indicated the clam was mature and healthy, and that the release was good for the reef, as food for corals and inverts.

 

[mbbuna]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9805030#post9805030 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Rovert
I was led to believe that often a spawning event was a good thing, as it indicated the clam was mature and healthy, and that the release was good for the reef, as food for corals and inverts.

in the wild, yes. but what triggers them to spawn in the wild? lunar cycles. in a closed system there not going to spawn naturally unless you are simulating lunar cycles. most of the time when clams spawn in our tanks its right ofter a water change(big alk, sg, temp or ph shift) the initial stresser is a concern and needs to be corrected but the big concern(in our tanks) is the die off from the gametes and the subsequent bacterial bloom/ oxygen deprivation

 

[Rovert]

Ah. I wonder what the output of the clam is in terms of gametes, relative to the average feeding of phytoplankton, golden pearls, or other similar aquarium food. Where I'm going with this, is in a reef stocked with LPS and SPS, would that really pose much of a problem, or would the animals consume the majority with the remainder extracted by the skimmer?