keitht85 Posted March 2, 2016 Share Posted March 2, 2016 I have been exploring the forums for a bit while building my first nano tank (will be posting a build thread eventualy). I came across the clam board today and am astonished that people are attempting to keep derasa and squamosa clams in nano tanks. All of my previous systems were larger tanks the smallest being a 60 rimless cube and all have had clams. The reason for my post is the sizes the become and how fast this occurs. In my current 60 I have a squamosa that is about 4 years old that is the size of a football. and in my old 120 I had a derasa that was 10 years old that was pushing 20 inches long when it passed. I am very well versed in the hobby keeping aquariums for 20 years and owner of an aquarium store here in upstate NY. ps The derasa passed due to it blowing out the bottom glass in the tank draining it while I was at work. Link to comment
FlowerMama Posted March 3, 2016 Share Posted March 3, 2016 Blowing out your tank. How does it do that? Sounds scary & what a shame it went that way. I've had a itty bitty maxima since it was 2/3", it's almost 2" finally. Most of it's life so far it was in an Evolve 8 and now it's in a 10 until my 40 is set up. But it's been very happy. Certainly though most people do seem to give them away or to an LFS when they get too big. I'd like to see more pics of that clam though and something for reference so I can really understand how big it was. Before... Now in the 10g. Link to comment
tetraodon Posted March 3, 2016 Share Posted March 3, 2016 admitingly derasas ans squamosas arent the most nano friendly, a lot of work goes into maintance and a lot of our members know the eventual size, Link to comment
keitht85 Posted March 3, 2016 Author Share Posted March 3, 2016 The clam would rapidly close once in a while when irritated. When it would do this you could feel it inn the floor. My guess is the urchin I had was on it and it was trying to get it off as the urchin was found crushed in its shell. for size comparison the yellow tang was about 5 inches long in that photo. when I took the shell out it weighted 14 lbs. Link to comment
FlowerMama Posted March 3, 2016 Share Posted March 3, 2016 Wow, I wouldn't have guessed 5" on that tang. So, water musta been pristine for all the filtering that huge thing does? Did you have to make the tank dirtier for it to survive? Link to comment
rolyat113 Posted March 4, 2016 Share Posted March 4, 2016 This is interesting to me. I've always wanted a maxima, but I don't want it throwing off my calcium, and it's probably just not a good idea. They are super cool though. Link to comment
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