CardsFan Posted December 30, 2012 Share Posted December 30, 2012 This is my giant Squamosa Clam over 10 inch long fully extended! Check It Out: Link to comment
jlbzixxer Posted December 30, 2012 Share Posted December 30, 2012 very nice love the blue on its tips Link to comment
CardsFan Posted December 30, 2012 Author Share Posted December 30, 2012 Its weird I look through the front glass and the tips are blue then I look from the top of the tank and there green. Link to comment
ClaytonG Posted December 30, 2012 Share Posted December 30, 2012 It's just the luminance of the mantle. I have an emerald green maxima that looks purple from the side, but a brilliant green from the top. It all depends on the viewing angle. Link to comment
rO.oster Posted January 6, 2013 Share Posted January 6, 2013 i was expecting something else when i clicked this thread..... 3 Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted January 6, 2013 Share Posted January 6, 2013 Nice clam, but it's starving. Make sure you have enough nitrate in your system to feed it or start dosing sodium nitrate. Link to comment
Lawnman Posted January 6, 2013 Share Posted January 6, 2013 What lights is this under? Link to comment
jlbzixxer Posted January 6, 2013 Share Posted January 6, 2013 Nice clam, but it's starving. Make sure you have enough nitrate in your system to feed it or start dosing sodium nitrate. probably a noob question but ill ask anyways how can you tell its starving? Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted January 6, 2013 Share Posted January 6, 2013 probably a noob question but ill ask anyways how can you tell its starving? The incurrent siphon is gaping. Link to comment
jlbzixxer Posted January 6, 2013 Share Posted January 6, 2013 i see thanks for the info ive being wanting a clam but i run my system as low as possible for my sps Link to comment
Lawnman Posted January 6, 2013 Share Posted January 6, 2013 The incurrent siphon is gaping. I don't know anything about clams. So that hole should be closed? Link to comment
patback Posted January 6, 2013 Share Posted January 6, 2013 I don't know anything about clams. So that hole should be closed? More or less, yes. It should be closed up. 1 Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted January 6, 2013 Share Posted January 6, 2013 I don't know anything about clams. So that hole should be closed? Should look like this all the time: Link to comment
Lawnman Posted January 6, 2013 Share Posted January 6, 2013 More or less, yes. It should be closed up. Always wondered what that big hole is on a clam at a LFS. They have a huge one with Aiptasia all over the base and a huge hole always open. Should look like this all the time: I see. Do you spot feed a clam? I heard the like nitrates. Sorry for my noobness Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted January 6, 2013 Share Posted January 6, 2013 Always wondered what that big hole is on a clam at a LFS. They have a huge one with Aiptasia all over the base and a huge hole always open. I see. Do you spot feed a clam? I heard the like nitrates. Sorry for my noobness As much as people try, you can't really feed a filter feeder without serious effort going into it. They eat nitrogen from the water (so ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate, with a preference to ammonia) and can filter stuff up to like 15 microns or so, but they need nitrogen more than actual food particles. Link to comment
Marteen Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 As much as people try, you can't really feed a filter feeder without serious effort going into it. They eat nitrogen from the water (so ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate, with a preference to ammonia) and can filter stuff up to like 15 microns or so, but they need nitrogen more than actual food particles. So what you are saying is... pee in the tank? Link to comment
metrokat Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 Clams like low level nitrates, up to 1ppm. They also process ammonia from fish waste and yes in clam farms in the far east, the workers do pee in the raceways. You can feed phytoplankton, oyster eggs also but these are just supplemental foods as clams process light through their mantles for energy. Check your clam at night for the gaping. This is a clam that gapes too much (this one died sadly) Link to comment
ZephNYC Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 You should let us see more pictures of it. Its a nice clam indeed, but lookes very stressed and maybe even diseased. Link to comment
ZephNYC Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 So what you are saying is... pee in the tank? you sir are a genius. Link to comment
Harrisonbored Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 I'm always seeing gaping clams at the LFS and was wondering, once they get like that can they be brought back to health...or are they pretty much doomed? Link to comment
ZephNYC Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 It really depends on how long they have been gaping for. If it has reached the point of the classic gape along with mantle retention, like this, aint nobody bringing her back. Link to comment
metrokat Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 That picture makes me sad Zeph. Link to comment
Harrisonbored Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 It really depends on how long they have been gaping for. If it has reached the point of the classic gape along with mantle retention, like this, aint nobody bringing her back. sad. thanks for the info. Link to comment
gonzalez78 Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 Mine never gaped but I have noticed that it won't open much anymore I'm thinking of moving it to my 40 breeder from my biocube. Btw kat have you added the posting title to your list of dirty names? lol Link to comment
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