unhappy clam

[scytale]

I have a T. Crocea that started gaping earlier this week. (has been 3 days straight now.)

Has all the bad symptoms: poor mantle extension, little/no reaction to shadow/shade.

Tried to do everything correctly:
-slowly acclimated it to my 250W MH over a 10 day period.
-put in on the sandbed, to start
-in an area of moderate-low flow
-water parameters as close to "text-book" as they've ever been.**

It wasn't very "happy" on the sand bed (kept flopping over on it's side.) So I placed a piece of dead rock under it on Sunday (flipped itself right off that night.)
decided that since it was a crocea, maybe it was best just to move it up to the rockwork, earlier this week.
I put it on the rockwork in the morning, but when I came home from work it was on the tank bottom. (not on "sand"-- because it landed right in my maroon clowns' favorite, sand-less spot.)

And based on the path of travel, the clam certainly had to have come in contact with my big LTA...

Is there anything I can do to help this guy?

Travis.

**I pulled out every test kit I have tonight and tested:
NH3, NO2, NO3: 0
Phos: < .03
Salinity: 34ppm
Alk:9.5
CA: 420
Mg: 1425

 

[returnofsid]

I would recommend putting this in the Giant Clam forum http://www.reeffrontiers.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=98 . There's also a lot of great reading in that forum. Maybe even PM Barry.

 

[scytale]

doh!
yeah, dunno why I didn't put it there.
(esp. since I'm the last person to have posted in that forum! ) doesn't get as much "traffic" as General Discussion, I guess.

Can't figure out how to move or delete this thread, so re-posted.

 

[OCDreefer]

what fish do you have? I only ask because my similar 'clam issue' I believe was caused by fish.

 

[burning2nd]

any pictures?

 

[scytale]

Yep, photos posted--per Sid's advice I (tried to) move the thread into the clam forum: http://www.reeffrontiers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=45923

 

[jill]

I don't know very much (only been doing this since March) but isn't 420 for Calcium kinda low for a clam?

 

[returnofsid]

420 isn't low at all. Natural Saltwater is quite a bit lower than that.