Help my clam:(

jstuver · May 27, 2011

So I have this 8" or so clam that has been looking great and I switched my tank over a couple days ago from a 75g to a 120g tall. It looked great yesterday and today it has its mantle pulled all the way in the clam. Is there any hope to save it?
I checked my params and my alk, cal and mag were on the low side as I didn't check them yesterday(my stupid fault) alk was at 7 cal at 320 and mag at 1080:(
I dosed and am slowly bringing them up.

jstuver · May 27, 2011

On a side note I have 4 other clams that look great!

kjdeut · May 28, 2011

I don't think the drop in alk and cal would cause it to suddenly close, it very well may be a little stressed from the changed. I would leave it alone for right now and continue to get your water params back to where they were. What kind of clam is it?

Ken

skinz78 · May 28, 2011

Can you post pic's of the clam?

What fish and inverts do you have?

jstuver · May 28, 2011

It was dead by last night:( I am guessing the stress from the move and then my params being off were the culprit:( Everything else is looking good and my params are getting back on track. It was sad to loose luckily however it was my only loss.

skinz78 · May 28, 2011

Sorry to hear about your loss, it didn't sound good in your first post.

Did you by chance reuse your old sand from the old tank?

jstuver · May 29, 2011

NO I only used the top layer believe me I have made that mistake before! Crashed my whole tank! I think it was just too much for it to handle, it was a newly aquired clam and so it really got moved too many times I think:(