Viva Derasa

Nembuddy · Mar 5, 2026

Happened to see it closed up to take a picture of the growth on the left and maybe just a tiny bit on the right.

minus9 · Mar 6, 2026

Take what you can get, as long as it's growing, you're going in the right direction.

Nembuddy · Mar 16, 2026

Just noticed this near the back today, hopefully it’s not PMD. I did pick up the clam over the weekend to snap off some vermitids, not sure if that might have hurt it somehow.

minus9 · Mar 16, 2026

Nembuddy said:
Just noticed this near the back today, hopefully it’s not PMD. I did pick up the clam over the weekend to snap off some vermitids, not sure if that might have hurt it somehow.

Just give it a day or two to see if it straightens itself out. It’s not going to get PMD by handling it, you would have to introduce the pathogen, which I spent I has happened.

Nembuddy · Mar 16, 2026

Most recent additions were some snails about 2 months ago, there are no other clams. Will monitor and see.

Nembuddy · Mar 17, 2026

Still a little curled in today but seems like less than yesterday.

Science/G · Mar 21, 2026

It looks great, and it's growing well. Don't pick it up anymore please! It stresses me out to see you doing it, so I can imagine what it's doing to the clam.

Nembuddy · Mar 24, 2026

Science/G said:
It looks great, and it's growing well. Don't pick it up anymore please! It stresses me out to see you doing it, so I can imagine what it's doing to the clam.

I try not to touch it much but I do need to clear off the vermitids on occasion. The mantle is a bit curled still but not much… pretty sure I see a vermitid in that area that might be causing it.

Science/G · Mar 24, 2026

Nembuddy said:
I try not to touch it much but I do need to clear off the vermitids on occasion. The mantle is a bit curled still but not much… pretty sure I see a vermitid in that area that might be causing it.

I get it. I had a huge Derasa clam that had pyramid snails I constantly had to remove. It was so big it used to squirt me in the face with it's siphon.

Nembuddy · Mar 29, 2026

Looking happy. It has a nice growth band on one side, and the other side has a bit too.

Nembuddy · May 3, 2026

Has been almost 11 months and I’d guess it has grown around 2”.

Pretty cool to be able to see the darker section of the shell that I think was the original size when I got it