Electric flame scallop looks like dying.

yuji · September 7, 2004

My scallop was a healthy fella. Then I transfered it to less than ideal conditions. When I transfered it back to my main tank, i noticed the shell was closed. After a while, it started to open, and now its wide open. But the 'electric' and red tentacles are gone and shrinked.

Will the scallop regrow these back in time? Or is the scallop gone for good?

(shucks, I should never have removed the scallop from my main tank)

eaquarist · September 9, 2004

if its not reacting to touch or light then sad to say, its gone..

typrobin · September 9, 2004

scallop can never last longer in tanks for more than 6mths...it is extremely difficult to maintain...

Gouldian · September 9, 2004

My scallop was a healthy fella. Then I transfered it to less than ideal conditions. When I transfered it back to my main tank, i noticed the shell was closed. After a while, it started to open, and now its wide open. But the 'electric' and red tentacles are gone and shrinked.

Will the scallop regrow these back in time? Or is the scallop gone for good?

(shucks, I should never have removed the scallop from my main tank)

I have kept them quite sometime ago and tried in vain trying to find out information about them but to no avail.

Apparently Electric Flame are listed as Intermediate LS but some literature claim that survivability in a home aquaria is almost impossible.

This is because, little is know about their feeding. Thus they will slowly "starve" to death in our aquarium.

Robert Fenner claim that in order for them to survive, you will need to house it in a refugium without and disturbing fishes and protein skimmers. This is because the phytos and pods produced will be able to sustain this file clam.

There are also another reefers in reef central that tried heavy dosing of phytoplankton daily to maintain them. According to him, he dose 2l of DT daily.

For me, I think both the above methods is not cost efficient as such I have given up on them. :whistle

I feel that the electric flame is already stressed due to hunger and when you moved it, you further stressed it thus the sudden deterioration.

I have kept my for 4 months and notice it slowly shrinking and dying even though I target feed with 10ml of DT per day - can't afford 1l per day. :angry: