Tigahboy Posted January 19, 2005 Author Share Posted January 19, 2005 Elegance was sold awhile ago. btw, I no longer have the smaller of the two pink yumas. =/ It was hard parting w/ it, but I sold it to a good home, so that makes it a little better....well...not really. i miss the yuma already! haha. j.k. stay tuned cuz a fellow nano-reefer will be showing pics of a few corals I sold to him. Shipped out like 30 minutes ago so he should get it by tomorrow. Link to comment
Tigahboy Posted January 19, 2005 Author Share Posted January 19, 2005 Originally posted by Shorty5198 Tigah! did u say 35-45? dang. Mine cost me 65$. I guess i should expect it being my location and all. Yeah...coral/clam costs are so dependent on where you live. us L.A. folks are really lucky. I bought that teardrop maxima for $85, but I've seen it on other non-California websites for at least $150. Link to comment
Kogut Posted January 19, 2005 Share Posted January 19, 2005 Aww. Looks like I'm in for another trip to Jeff's if I want an elegance... : Link to comment
Shorty5198 Posted January 19, 2005 Share Posted January 19, 2005 Tigahboy, got a Q? What are u doing to make your clams thrive? What are u feeding them? I'm gunna start to culture my own phyto and maybe get some marine snow. Are u doing anything out of the ordinary (besides basic clam care) for them? Thanks Link to comment
Tigahboy Posted January 19, 2005 Author Share Posted January 19, 2005 I'm definitely not a clam expert and I lost one of my croceas even. The new crocea looks much better tho and happy, so maybe my old crocea was just from a bad stock. But yeah, too soon for me to know exactly what clam-keeping methods work best. But I do know that smaller clams (like under 2") require phyto feeding. I like a combo of half DT's and half marine snow. But I try to avoid smaller clams since bigger ones rely more on light and dont require phyto as much (which caused really bad algae blooms in my tank before). aka...I don't do anything special. hehe. Link to comment
Tigahboy Posted January 19, 2005 Author Share Posted January 19, 2005 Here's a pic of my much happier crocea: Link to comment
supernip Posted January 19, 2005 Share Posted January 19, 2005 thats a very loverly clam. I'm debating about picking up a 1.5inch gold max for my tank. It'd be trendy to have a clam Link to comment
Kogut Posted January 19, 2005 Share Posted January 19, 2005 Must have a shot from above of your clam! That's the only way to see a clam, IMHO. Tiny ones like that, nip, are sooo reliant on supplementary feedings like Tigah mentioned. That's the only downside. Link to comment
supernip Posted January 19, 2005 Share Posted January 19, 2005 i have to dose for my cocoworm anyway Link to comment
bladze Posted January 19, 2005 Share Posted January 19, 2005 Can we continue on a new thread? Link to comment
Tigahboy Posted January 19, 2005 Author Share Posted January 19, 2005 Sure...like Tigahboy's Reef 2005 (part II)? haha. But I agree that the length makes it hard to get anything useful out of it anymore. but then again, I was planning to start a new one when I had my new tank all set-up. I dunno. what u think, bladze? Link to comment
MiniReefin Posted January 19, 2005 Share Posted January 19, 2005 I think so, Also Tigah... Let me know where the new thread is. Link to comment
ravenmore7 Posted January 19, 2005 Share Posted January 19, 2005 Hey Tigahboy- you have to feed clams. Even bigger clams benefit from feeding. Photosynthesis only provides for short term metabolic needs. Building blocks such as proteins for growth and damage repair have to come from feeding. Also, pumping water continuously as clams do is metabolically expensive. Live phyto is good but also check out a food called Knop Korralvit F. Also check out clamsdirect.com. They have a message board and a lot of good info. IMO most clams that die in captivity starve to death. Link to comment
Tigahboy Posted January 19, 2005 Author Share Posted January 19, 2005 Yeah, I do feed them still. just not every other day like I used to feed the smaller clams. I haven't tried Knop Korralvit F tho. I'll check it out. thanks. Link to comment
Kogut Posted January 19, 2005 Share Posted January 19, 2005 This thread is the '05 thread, and it's not even the end of Jan... :| Amazing how you rack up the posts. IMHO, people all need to go into their user cp and switch it to 40 posts per page. Shows your thread as 26 pages to me. What are you feeding the clams (and corals for that matter), anyways? I think you need something like what you did for your dosing a long time ago, but showing what and how you feed. Link to comment
Tigahboy Posted January 19, 2005 Author Share Posted January 19, 2005 DT's, Marine Snow, and Seachem's Reef Plus (once or twice a week). Link to comment
ebin Posted January 19, 2005 Share Posted January 19, 2005 Man this thread reads like a novel if you don't keep up with it every day you can get lost real quick. As always tigah looks good. I shot you a pm not too sure if you got it. Do you have any complaints about the DT's I used it for a long time and it had the drawback of making my glass cake with algea. But the tank mates seemed to like it. I try to stick to the kents plankton products now as they don't have the shelf life and all. Link to comment
NaNO ReeFiN Posted January 19, 2005 Share Posted January 19, 2005 What do you think of marine snow? I got a bottle of it but heard it was pure crap. I'm currently dosing DT's & Liquid Life BioPlankton. Link to comment
Kogut Posted January 19, 2005 Share Posted January 19, 2005 Just to chime in and make your thread longer, I use DT's and Kent's Micro Vert. I try to mix them together in a seperate cup and sometimes throw some tiny mysis in w/ it. Then feed it to whoever is open at the time and dump the rest in a little bit at a time. Only in high flow areas, of course. Link to comment
ravenmore7 Posted January 19, 2005 Share Posted January 19, 2005 DT's is very concentrated - it's easy to overdo it. I personally use Liquid life (their phyto product) and Knop Korralvit F. The clams definitely seemed to improve when I started using the Knop product, much more so than using phyto alone... I've heard a lot of negatives about Marine Snow, but haven't used it myself. Link to comment
Tigahboy Posted January 19, 2005 Author Share Posted January 19, 2005 you know, I have no idea how to tell if marine snow is "good" or "bad." Kinda hard when I'm also mixing it w/ the other stuff I mentioned in a cup before dosing. But I've been using marine snow since I first set up this tank...so either it is working for me...or at the very worst, it just isn't doing anything at all. But if everyone thinks it really sucks, maybe I should just stop using it. I hate DT's...for the very reasons you mentioned, ravenmore7. it is very easy to overdo it. I'm gonna have to check out your Liquid life stuff. Link to comment
Shorty5198 Posted January 20, 2005 Share Posted January 20, 2005 I'm going to start to use Knop Koralvit f. Is there any other place that sells it besides clams direct? Link to comment
Tigahboy Posted January 20, 2005 Author Share Posted January 20, 2005 Man. my big pink yuma is lonely now. It's buddy was shipped to its new home in Colorado today. I guess I'll have to hunt down another one now. =) Link to comment
reeferbarra20 Posted January 20, 2005 Share Posted January 20, 2005 YO TIGAH !!! you think it's a bad idea to use a 24' CPR AQUAFUGE HOB as my Refugium instead of a 20 gal sump? Link to comment
Tigahboy Posted January 20, 2005 Author Share Posted January 20, 2005 Originally posted by reeferbarra20 YO TIGAH !!! you think it's a bad idea to use a 24' CPR AQUAFUGE HOB as my Refugium instead of a 20 gal sump? Haha...dont do that, dude. I was thinking about something similar tho...like maybe setting up a plain jane 20g long in the stand as a sump...and then hang one of those aquafuges on the sump (not the main display)....not sure how well this would work tho. I'm just having a freakin hard time finding a sump/fuge set-up that can accomodate my es5-3, have a decent sized fuge area, and still easily fits into the stand. blah! what a PITA. Link to comment
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