What's the best way to remove zoas from clam?

[porpoiseaquatics]

A nearby colony of a unknown zoa has finally grown to a point where they have attached to the shell of my blue maxima clam. At first, it didn't care but now it's aggravated so I want to remove the zoas from the shell. I don't know the best method to do this. If I just cut them near the base...1. can I remount them as a frag and 2. will they just regrow?

 

[falos]

Usuly you can use tweezers and pull around its the edge of the zoas working slowly you can save them and git the hole mat to pull up. But all zoas are Sorrento and sum won't let go if so use a razor to separate the mat were it meats the clam and inject kalkwaser in to them and it will kill them just be careful not to git it near the mantle

 

[thanh386]

+1 tweezers

+1000000 awesomeness of clam

 

[falos]

Kalk is good you only have to inject 1 head it will cause all of them that are on the same mat. Just make sure its tires to center of the clam shell away from the mantle shell edges and foot u can also use a tooth brush but that is real risky you can cause the shell to separate if you use to much force.
Clams are ok out of water you just have to rock them to git all of the air out. Maxama dersa and hippos clams are Sean exposed on lots of reef heads during low tide in the wild

1 last thing always check to see if the clam has secured itsself to a rock or tank by gently nudging it with your fingers if it falls over your good if it has secured its self you will half to remove it and the rock and cut the threads with a razor near the rock watch a few videos on how to do it.

 

[porpoiseaquatics]

Well my clam was secured until this morning. He has decided to let go of the rock he was attached to. I think it was because of the approaching zoas. He now sits on the sand bed and is wide open as if nothing happened. I'll probably put him in a bowl of tank water later today and see if I can coax some of the zoas off the shell.

 

[mojo]

Put the clam in a separate bucket of wire and go to town with a wire brush...

 

[elfloyd]

mojo;703378 wrote: Put the clam in a separate bucket of wire and go to town with a wire brush...

+1 I had to use a toothbrush to remove xenia from my clam. Scrubbed the area with baking soda but was careful not to get close to the mantle. The invasion was severe so I had to take a bit of a risk. He opened up immediately and is doing fine several months later.

 

[porpoiseaquatics]

elFloyd;703386 wrote: +1 I had to use a toothbrush to remove xenia from my clam. Scrubbed the area with baking soda but was careful not to get close to the mantle. The invasion was severe so I had to take a bit of a risk. He opened up immediately and is doing fine several months later.

With baking soda huh? What does that do?

 

[elfloyd]

I need an abasive to get all the xenia tissue off the clam... My wire brush was contaminated with oil.

With hindsite I could have tried salt.

 

[falos]

U guys nead to go to advanced auto and git this little 3 inch brush with a red handle its $1 and hang it from your cabanit door oil and fish don't mix look at the gulf