Please help me save my Derasa!!!!!

[Caesar Augustus]

I noticed my derasa lookin a bit down for a bout a week so I picked him up and gave him a look see.......................and whoa nellie!@! There were little snails on his hinge shaped like little conch shells. I don't know the name of them but I do know they kill clams. So I took him out and scrubbed them off with a toothbrush. What else can I do?
I know six lines are supposed to take care of them but how can they eat snails on the bottom of the clam?? A fresh water dip perhaps??? Help me !!
Keep the reef,
Napoleon
"I live in my own little world, but thats ok, they know me here."
-unknown-

[piege]

The clams migrate to the underside of the mantle round night time I believe. They hide under the clam during the day and lay eggs there.

Here's a site about them. I believe you can save your clam by just keeping on top of the snails, removing them when you see them. From what I hear it takes a ton to really bring a clam down, but like you my clam wasn't looking like himself one day and I found those snails and removed all I saw, but it died anyway.

Check this out...
http://www.animalnetwork.com/fish2/a...ll/default.asp

HTH,
JP

[npaden]

I wouldn't worry to much about the snails. Just start a routine of picking them off weekly for a while and you should get them for the most part.
You could do more damage with a toothbrush on the byssal gland if you weren't careful than 100 snails would do.
I pick the snails off with a tweezer. The parasitic snails will also feed on the larger herbivore snails so you might check on your snails if you had as many as it sounds.
FWIW, Nathan

[Caesar Augustus]

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[outerbank]

Gently scrub the entire shell with a toothbrush once a week. IME, the snails do not seem to like sand as much as a hard substrate, so keep the derasa in the sand as well. Avoid disrupting the mantle and the bysal gland.
Scott

[outerbank]

I forgot to mention, when you gently scrub the clam. Put it in a bowl of water and do this outside the tank.

[Caesar Augustus]

thanks all!

[Elmo18]

mmm...hmm...mmm

Reminds me of eating some Quahog clams.....yum....

Get them live...shuckle them.....some sauce....and slurp em..

hehe..

Regards,
Ilham