Brad!

[canadawest]

Well I just lost my T. Maxima overnight, so I am also part of this tragedy. :(

Not sure what the cause is, but I tend to agree with Brad. Sure I've had regular temp fluctuations the past couple weeks, usually 3-4 degrees in a day. But I find it highly suspicious that this all happend a month after I added a new Derasa.

Last year we had an even worse heat wave. I had no hood fans, and experienced temp swings of 4-5 degrees each day over the entire week. I was floating frozen 2L bottles and reducing my photoperiod to try to compensate. I even lost two fish due to the stress. And what of my little T. Maxima, it never showed any signs of stress. Here we are a year later with the same temperature circumstances. Why the death this year, and not last year?

I can agree that temperature was probably an aggrivating factor, but I think it's just too convenient that people are experiencing losses after introducing a new clam (or even just corals now I am reading)

Who knows the answer? But I do know that there will be no new clams for me now for several months, especially now as I watch the remaining little Derasa and see if it is affected.