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Offline Bigtom802l

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Help with clam
« on: November 17, 2015, 19:08:28 »
My clam has been in my tank for over 2 years now and has been looking good and growing.  Today I came home to him laying on his side and when I stood him up he layed back down.  Not sure what is going on
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Re: Help with clam
« Reply #1 on: November 17, 2015, 19:09:38 »
Temp is 77 deg
Ph 8.12
Alk is 9.1
Nitrate is about 1 ppm
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Re: Help with clam
« Reply #2 on: November 17, 2015, 19:10:02 »
The clam has never done this before any ideas?
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Re: Help with clam
« Reply #3 on: November 17, 2015, 19:26:21 »
have you changed the flow in your tank recently?
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Re: Help with clam
« Reply #4 on: November 17, 2015, 19:27:42 »
No I have not changed the flow in the tank in a couple of months
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Re: Help with clam
« Reply #5 on: November 17, 2015, 20:38:39 »
Is the mantle staying retracted?  Can you see anything on it?   Also, in the past, when it looked good, was the mantle fully extended, with no pinches.
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Re: Help with clam
« Reply #6 on: November 17, 2015, 21:07:02 »
It is out a little bit nothing like it used to be.  Yesterday it was nice and extended with no pinches right now it looks like this this.  It is like the two halves of the shell are sliding past each other and not staying even
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Re: Help with clam
« Reply #7 on: November 17, 2015, 21:08:42 »

More pictures
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Re: Help with clam
« Reply #8 on: November 17, 2015, 22:50:30 »
Can you get him to close up all of the way and take a picture from the top, and then pick him up and take a picture of the bottom.   But I cannot say that I've seen anything like this.   My clams are so wide, they couldn't fall over.
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Re: Help with clam
« Reply #9 on: November 17, 2015, 23:17:19 »
Ok this is that it looks like
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Re: Help with clam
« Reply #10 on: November 18, 2015, 10:46:31 »
That looks pretty normal to me.   Not sure then.
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