My Clams Are Spawning

Pics to follow.

DAYUM my skimmer smells really bad. . .

B

very cool. I've caught my clams doing this too and in a small tank it can be areal mess.

My brothers clam spawned yesterday, its only a 60 gallon and its a pretty big clam so he was worried that it would crash his tank, it cleared up by the next morning though. It was the first time his clam spawned and at around the same time his snails started spawning too so he thought that he accidently put something in the water that caused it, maybe something from his hands.

I did just do a waterchange.

The only other thing I can think it woud be, is I added a new clam. If both my old ones are females, and the new one is a male, would that set off a spawn?

121 pics downloading from the mem card as I speak!

anyone know what the moon is doing these days?

prattreef said:

anyone know what the moon is doing these days?

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Nothing special..last full moon was April 20th and we just passed the Last Quarter 4/28.
Oddly enough I had my bristleworms spawn out of their usual sequence on Saturday morning and that was when I was blowing detritus from behind the rocks.
Brett might be onto something between his waterchange and the addition of a clam that might be of a different sex. I know the water changes spark my bristles..

Looking forward to the pics...nothing like a happy clam

after reading through this paper on rearing clams I realized I stressed it in the morning, and it spawned in late afternoon. I took the clams out and really scrubbed the algea off them. Valonia, bryopsis, ect. then I dunked them back in the tank.

Here's one pic

There was a guy back in Boston working in a LFS that could get clams to spawn whenever he put his hands in the tank. He was taking seritonin suppliments though. So he thought that may have made the clams spawn.

At MACNA, the guy who spoke about clam farming said they take them out of the water and put them on a shelf for an hour or so. Once they put them back in the water they all start spawning.

That is a great photo. Enter it as a calendar submission.

My nassarius just laid their eggs last night.

Nice pic B. I would just think the spawning event would mean a smorgasboard for the rest of the inhabitants. Is that incorrect? When my clowns spawn and hatch every 11 days, the fish, shrimp and coral go nuts for them.

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both seretonin and heat stress will indeed make the clam spawn (according to that article) the other way they do it is by chopping up clam gonad and adding it to the tank.

B

prattreef said:

That is a great photo. Enter it as a calendar submission.

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I've got a few better ones. That one is a simple resize and post!

B

Josh said:

At MACNA, the guy who spoke about clam farming said they take them out of the water and put them on a shelf for an hour or so. Once they put them back in the water they all start spawning.

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Yes I remember that. I think they might use steroids too.

omg wait? its spawning? so it will make clams right? thats a maxima for sure! and your ganna have more?

Zuska said:

its spawning? so it will make clams right?

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...as opposed to :scratchch



Awesome pic BC, looking forward to the rest of them!

wow:bigeyes: definately enter it for the calendar and POTW

bad coffee said:

after reading through this paper on rearing clams I realized I stressed it in the morning, and it spawned in late afternoon. I took the clams out and really scrubbed the algea off them. Valonia, bryopsis, ect. then I dunked them back in the tank.

Here's one pic

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The pic still shows some stuff growing on the shell. You didn't do a very good job of scrubbing the algae off them :lol2: but cool pic

oh, I did scrub the bejusus out of the clam. I even scrubbed hard enough to break a scute on one of them There is this red ogo algae in my tank I can't get rid of. I'll have to hire a yellow tang to take care of it.

Thats crazy! Good luck!