Why do Tridacna Clams get such a bad rap? Did we find the Answer? Polo Reef Explores Clam Solutions!

[@PoloReef]

For All Who Read This We Are Now Testing The European Salts Vs Us Salts With Lower Levels Of One Particular Element So Stay Tuned !

[@dirtdevilsreef5613]

What brand of EU salts are you trying??

[@PoloReef]

@@dirtdevilsreef5613 right now tropic marin

[@dirtdevilsreef5613]

@@PoloReef Nyos has a new salt out that supposed to be good and took them few years to develop it.

[@lucidairity7927]

I feel they'res so many variables in nature that we as aquarist don't take for granted and for example when going things super glad your testing this!!! I live in Michigan and we can straight do water from the tap for acropora it's quite wild ik some parts of the UK would have a very hard time doing this

[@PoloReef]

@@dirtdevilsreef5613not the salt that was made with oceamo ive seen icps and many traces are low !!

[@fruples]

These videos just keep getting better. Thanks!

[@TheFibonacciFox]

You’re a very savvy guy. What you’re doing is stabilizing the future aquaculture farming industry..no matter WHERE we need to build it. Thank You for your hard work and commitment to excellence and dedication.

[@PoloReef]

appreciate !

[@TopShelfAquatics]

Glad the Reef Genetics line from TSA has been beneficial for these studies! Great video Polo Team! -Blaine

[@Ellery-USA]

Great work guys... the price of clams these days makes it a non-experiment for hobbyists. Glad you are work on this since I am a clam nut.

[@tobymilo8625]

Great video! The amount of patience and dedication you have are amazing. You’re not just helping yourself but helping others before they fail by you doing all the experimenting first. Thanks for sharing and lots of luck

[@PoloReef]

@@tobymilo8625 ❤️❤️

[@MylesBogner]

Thanks for all the works for the hobby guys, you probably don’t get enough praise, but it’s 100% worth it to us and our saltwater friends.

[@sosmra]

Thank you for all the work and the posting of the results , it is a great thing to learn how to keep these animals healthy .

[@Jblank558]

Been waiting for a clams video, Thank you

[@nmarq005]

Appreciate everything you’re doing for our passion!!!

[@PoloReef]

@@nmarq005 🙏🏼❤️

[@scrubjay93]

Great to see you doing such important work - keeping animals like this alive in captivity may be critical to preventing their extinction someday (gaining the ability to reseed habitats that become suitable for clams again after catastrophic disturbance, climate change, or overharvest, etc.). Hobbyists and amateurs can make significant advances in such areas even without formal advanced degrees.

[@finn.wessemius2653]

Interesting video! My reeftank has a squamosa and a derasa that grow CRAZY. But everytime i add a maxima clam, the Maxima's never survive... They all seem to die the same way. Retracting the mantel and mucus/black dots seem to get out of the siphon mouth.

[@queencityreefs]

Amazing work Polo Reef Team! 💪🏻👏🏻🙌🏻

[@thesaltwaterchef1]

Just wondering why you would swab the mantle and then not switch to a sterile swab to swab the foot? Possible trasfer of bacteria on mantle vs foot? Just curious.

[@PoloReef]

@@thesaltwaterchef1 you would get both bacteria if two

[@JonesIsHere]

Thank you for all you're giving back to the community

[@dazsboxofwater]

Very interesting stuff , thank you for sharing 👍🏻👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@EddyOrtiz-579]

Very informative and interesting. 🤔 I use kanaplex for my Red Alpha Swordtail with the Metroplex. I knew that kanaplex was a winner. It also is absorbed thru the skin/flesh helping the fish heal faster and getting them to eat. Great video it connected the Kana's effect to two completely different animals. Thanks Andrew for posting on U Tube .

[@PoloReef]

@@EddyOrtiz-579 ya kana i just hope not too strong and lighten up mantle

[@jimmurpby2208]

So great at all the videos

[@johnhowerton8005]

Andrew- First off, thank you for the resources and effort to address this issue! What is in the dips you keep referencing? I assume that changes as the bacteria swabs do but what are you trying at this time? What duration?

[@PoloReef]

chloramphenicol and kana but may try oxolinic too Quick 20 min to 30 min chloriquine phosphate bath

[@formallydehyde]

Kanamycin is great against extracellular bacterial pathogens but doesn't cross animal cell membranes, so it's less effective against pathogenic bacteria that invade and replicate inside of cells. Chloramphenicol does cross animal cell membranes and can be used to treat extra and intracellular bacteria. Just something to keep in mind in case it seems bacterial but the kanamycin doesn't work on it.

[@salty_systems]

I have a feeling that a certain mix and concentration of nettle poisons usually present in a healthy reefs wathercolumn could be a factor as well.. would be interested to see if there's a correllation. If carbon, uv,.. is used to clean the water from everything maybe we're missing something. I've always had better luck with fish if they where introduced in a tank with a heavy coral load (especially Sachrophyton seems to have an effect but this is not proven) compared to a very clean Tank. Somehow they must have grown before they arrived.. Anyway i'm happy to see these investigations 😊 thanks for your effort in supporting the Marine aquarist community it is very important to gain unbiased information 😊 This reminds me on the old times when Dana riddle published articles in Advanced Aquarist 😊

[@reefstock8330]

What medication you dip ?

[@Tanapseudes]

My longest living clam was a squamosa at about 3 years. This was killed by a ligament disease that would not allow valves to shut properly. Thanks for your research.

[@PoloReef]

@@Tanapseudes ya that one i cant fix

[@behindtheseeyesiseewhatyou8953]

As an early pre Reef Central, clam keeper I had great success. A lot was the pyramid snails. Killed many before they had a chance to

[@Long_Island_Corals]

Question- the Tahiti clams are they collected from reefs or are they mariculture on reef farms in the ocean Also the Red Sea one. Are they mariculture also - or are they articulated and grown inside -

[@PoloReef]

@@Long_Island_Corals we have some maricultured but ones we working with are all wild

[@Cgraseck]

I've been working with two T. derasa and two T. maxima over the past year. I gave each a pH adjusted fresh water bath for half an hour as an initial dip. Three of them also received an additional pH adjusted fresh water bath and an oxilinic acid in salt water bath. These extra baths were given when the clams appeared to not be fully opening. The additional baths were for half an hour each, 1/2 hour in pH adjusted fresh water and 1/2 an hour in oxilinic acid in salt water. All four of these clams seem to be doing well at the point. I heard someone say that they thought that clams like a much whiter spectrum than we give them, so I added a Fresh Water Blade light to the two Grow Blades that are over this 75 gallon tank. The white lights are on for four hours during the middle of the photoperiod. Perhaps the white light helps as well. Cheers, Chris

[@PoloReef]

@@Cgraseck thx we have oxolinic will try that too Never had a freshwater dip successful but maybe was too late

[@Cgraseck]

@@PoloReef I've dipped all of my clams in pH corrected fresh water for 1/2 hour. Three of them twice. They all handled it without a problem. I also culture Tetrasalmis and Tisochrysis lutea. They get pretty heavy feedings of both almost every day. Cheers, Chris

[@Cgraseck]

I'm a teacher at The Bi-Cultural Hebrew Academy in Stamford. I have my middle school students culturing the phytoplankton at school. Oh, I forgot, we also have a T. derasa at school. He got a 1/2 hour pH corrected fresh water dip as well. Cheers, Chris

[@chellicarterflores4524]

Beautiful clams!

[@whiskeythrottleracing]

Shout out to my good friend Barry Neigut of Clams Direct who more than 20 years ago set out to diagnose and treat wild tridacna diseases lie mantle pinch. I believe Sprung and Fenner were also engaged in this effort. We've come a heck of a long way in a short period of years in calm keeping and numerous other aspects of reef keeping. Hat's off to Polo Reef and your no BS charge to get this right!

[@PoloReef]

@@whiskeythrottleracing 🤞🙏🏼❤️

[@Lookingglassaquarium]

How mach kana per Gallon bath ?and how long

[@PoloReef]

@@Lookingglassaquarium we still figuring that out but last batch we used 1 gram for 5 gallons 30 mins

[@rolbar9406]

barcode on a plastic frag rack ,probably have lead or other metal...Don't you think so??

[@PoloReef]

@@rolbar9406 no in salt

[@rolbar9406]

@@PoloReef Sea water is an "aggressive environment".....here's some food for thought

[@Tropicalpalms]

When will there be a 2024 recap this was a great year

[@PoloReef]

Here ya go. Happy safe new year. Thanks for your support (Hal) kzbin.info/www/bejne/fZDNd6ialtOVmLM

[@calebandersen2697]

I still wanna try a clam

[@thomascristaldi9303]

How do they reproduce?

[@PoloReef]

@@thomascristaldi9303 in clam tank

[@ScottieMckinley787]

I've had better luck with clams after stopping the gfo/carbon reactor. I believe there are fine resin particles in the water that clams injest and don't know to "spit it out". Now I just run filter floss.

[@PoloReef]

@@ScottieMckinley787 you know gfo ive been thinking about it ! very possible

[@Hfd678vcdg]

I use natural seawater, they're incredibly robust

[@cedric7304]

very beautiful

[@Trav84]

I can’t believe you guys dont culture your own phyto