R.I.P. clam

[noodleman]

:sigh1: Woke up this morning to find one of my crocea clams has biten the dust last night. :banghead: He finally died after about two months of showing declining health, currently his younger brother crocea and his 4 maxima cusins are morning the death. A sad day indeed for this clam family,but atleast me made it to see the new year.
Here's a pic of the fallen...the one on the left

 

[inkblue]

...wHere did yoU buy him from :sigh1: sorry to hear... :sleepy:

 

[DRZL]

damn that makes us two, my little clam from the frag swap group buy bit the dust, it also never looked so hott...


R.I.P. Clammies
I wonder if heavens got a grotto?..lol :afro:

 

[DEEPWATER]

...wHere did yoU buy him from :sigh1: sorry to hear... :sleepy:

Srry Noodleman ,He got the clam from me .I will take care of you on the next one ,srry to hear that it didnt make it.
RIP clam :headache:

 

[noodleman]

I'll be waiting deep, but its good to know the other two i got from you are great, love teh colors and comes out huge

 

[heuerfan]

Any idea why it died?

 

[noodleman]

No idea why it died, no signs of pyrmid snails, fish dont pick at it. After it died i dipped it in freshwater to see if anything was eating it would pop out, but nothing came out. I think its just a bad pick of the batch.

 

[heuerfan]

Sorry to hear that.

 

[noodleman]

Thanks guys, thinking about replacing him already....only got 5 clams left, and i hate odd numbers. Hopefully i didn't jynx another clam to die

 

[Reefer420]

i looks to me that they are both "gaping" pretty badly (mouth is pretty wide open)- usually a sign of poor health. the one on the right doesn't look so hot either... what kind of light do you keep them under? I'm not an expert, having only a single clam- but thats what it looks like!

 

[noodleman]

I have them under 250watt mh, and i thought crocea clams usually gap more then the other clams.

 

[ezee]

noodleman,

I have read that as well. My crocea seems very healthy and the opening is fairly large. I have also read, when a crocea truly gaps, you will know. You will be able to clearly see its gill structure and small tentacles around the opening will turn up.

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[noodleman]

Hmm, pretty interesting. The second one never showed any signs of distress, but i'll keep a close eye on it.