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05-18-2004, 11:44 AM
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| Sponsor  | mattie, Now that would be hard to guess as I truly do not know how long it takes for the parasites to die without a host. The way we did it with one of our holding tanks was to remove everything and take out all the substate and replace it with new. Now we use mostly baskets with #10 sand any every week we take the baskets out and clean them with fresh water and put in the sun for a few days then back in the tanks and restock clams. Seem to work as I haven't seen a snail in many months. We just take our time when acclimating new arrvials and check them closely before placing in our tanks. We have found some from time to time when bring in new clams from the wholesalers. 
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05-18-2004, 01:04 PM
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| Hey!Its not my fault   | Interesting stuff. I had snails kill a clam and I was afraid to add another clam because I didnt know if the snails would still be in the tank.I didnt know they needed a host . I will maybe think about another clam. Thanks Barry
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05-18-2004, 01:21 PM
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| Reef Lobster   | Just to note, these snails can also host on astrea snails (and I would presume other snails). I have personally seen them on larger snails (snails acting as a snail parasite...strange I know). So, removing just the clam might not be removing all potential hosts...
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05-18-2004, 02:21 PM
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Didn't think about that as I do not have astrea snails in my holding tanks. In one of my customers tank we found several in the empty shells of hermit and astrea snail .
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05-18-2004, 04:03 PM
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| Reef Lobster | Oops, just noticed that RA immediatly noted that they could also be found on astreas... Either way Mstt, it might be a good idea to remove any astreas that you may have as well (I didn't remember seeing any but it is hard to notice snails with everything else you have in your tank  )
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05-18-2004, 06:26 PM
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| Manta Ray  | Mattie, Please keep us posted on how this turns out. This is good info to have. I'm sorry that you're having to deal w/ it though. Nick
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05-19-2004, 09:54 AM
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| RS Sponsor  | got up early today to check things out with the lights out and found a few 2-4 snails on the clams 2 on a mexican turbo and 3-4 surfing the glass... i am setting up the q-tank this week and remove all the snails for an unknown amount of time okay what about limpets.....somatella snails these things are in aboundace and would be a real pain in the a$$ to remove do ya think the snail's would be hosting on them as well
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05-27-2004, 11:16 AM
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| RS Sponsor | UPDATE!! well after a week things are looking good removed all the snails i had 14 astrea and 1 mexican and replaced them with some hemits. some of the snail's did have the parasite snails on them... every morning before the lights come on i inspect the clams i am still finding about 1 a day and I am really shocked at how small they can be alot of them are this small , no joke super small white baby snails... the great news is the clams look great just to say a scary number since the first one i have probably pulled 30+ off the clams and about 5-10 off the glass.... i fell very fortunate that i was given some good advice on this problem Thanks Barry
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06-10-2004, 10:16 AM
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| RS Sponsor | clam Q-tank I thought I would share a pic of my new Nano clam-frag tank thanks scott for the lend of the 10G the clams look healthy but somehow I am still finding a snail or 2 every few days the are illuminated with 1 65w 10k and 1 65w actinc a pair of powerheads a HOB filter and a kalk drip i have been putting a little phtyo in there a piece of lr from my fuge and made some frags so it's clam and sps filtered  why waste the light and the setup and thanks again barry I think you saved me...my next clam purchase will be thru you
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