are these what I think they are?

[gregzz4]

Originally Posted by gregzz4

Does this mean you will have to scrub your clam every day for up to 3 weeks ?

I guess it'll be very clean by then

That was a very innocent question aimed at your dilemma

Originally Posted by christyf5

Lol. Im surprised this thread got to page 2 without that kind of comment

I was gonna add something to the end of my previous post asking that we don't go there .... but I didn't want to encourage it

So, now that the 'box' has been opened, I wanna be the first to say that I'm sorry to hear your 'critter' is infected and I wish you all the best throughout your 3 week regimen to rid yourself of the 'infestation'

At least it's not an infection you have to carry with you

All the best and a Merry Christmas

[craigwmiller]

Originally Posted by gregzz4

That was a very innocent question aimed at your dilemma


I was gonna add something to the end of my previous post asking that we don't go there .... but I didn't want to encourage it

So, now that the 'box' has been opened, I wanna be the first to say that I'm sorry to hear your 'critter' is infected and I wish you all the best throughout your 3 week regimen to rid yourself of the 'infestation'

At least it's not an infection you have to carry with you

All the best and a Merry Christmas

Thread successfully derailed ...... CN couldn't have done a better job

[Coral Hoarder]

wow this sucks sory to hear this is hapining to bad u caant dip clams huh
well i wish u luck on ur quest to rid the sanils

[Delphinus]

Oh wow, nasty!! Good luck.

I'd take the occasion as an excuse to go get a canary wrasse or radiant wrasse though.

Where did they come from if you haven't added anything recently? Guess they've been around for a while..

Is it just the one clam in the tank atm?

[PoonTang]

I bought a green corus wrasse to take care of mine and it worked like a charm.

[TimT]

Hi Christy,

I used to use a toothbrush with a glass of freshwater to clean the shell. They do like to hide in the scutes as well so a dental pick is useful there. Sometimes they will even go inside the clam, in the area before where the mantle tissue attaches to the inside of the shell.

I have seen the snails active at night as well so wrasses are probably of limited effect and may not completely eradicate the problem on their own. They would however stop an infection from reaching plague proportions.

Cheers,
Tim

[reefwars]

you could go the starve them out route , get someone with a qt or yourself if ones running to babysit your clam/s and without a food source like anything will die out in time.they dont need sand , and on top of that they are very good hunters , in order to starve the food source has to be gone.



http://www.reefpestsolutions.com/#!pyramid-snails/c1ds1

http://archive.reefcentral.com/forum.../t-639037.html

[Magickiwi]

Get a six-line wrasse?