CroceaMaxima Posted April 16, 2002 Share Posted April 16, 2002 Here is my 10 G Nano for Clams, 2 month old. Currently, I have a large Crocea & a Small Maxima with a bunch of snails & Red/Green Grapes. The tank has a small Whisper filter, a home made skimmer. Bi weekly water change & exchange water to my 29G main tank once in a while. Lighting: 70W Kawasaki 6500K Metal Halide plus 26W Actinic PC. (Very Proud to made this lighting set up: $45 70W flood light metal Halide fixture got from ebay, $75 kawasaki bulb 6500K from premium aquatics $30 2x23W kits & Actinic bulb from AHsupply Total: $150 The clam image are side view followed by top view. Link to comment
Strife Posted April 16, 2002 Share Posted April 16, 2002 nice...how do you deal with the heat from MH? Link to comment
CroceaMaxima Posted April 16, 2002 Author Share Posted April 16, 2002 Thanks, The light fixture is pretty high & I drilled a lot of holes in the back of it. I removed the Balists & put it remotely so only the bulbs is up there. The bulb is the lowest watt MH Aquarium bulb avaiable & is only 70W, a lot less heat emitted. Finally, I raise the light about one inch if goes over 81 grgree during the day. These actions has managed to keep the water bellow 81 during the day. Clam lover Link to comment
NanoReefer53 Posted April 16, 2002 Share Posted April 16, 2002 Can u get a pic w/o the actinic lighting ? I wanna see how yellow those iwasakis are on a smaller tank. Link to comment
OscarBeast Posted April 17, 2002 Share Posted April 17, 2002 What are you feeding those clams? Link to comment
Cam barr Posted April 17, 2002 Share Posted April 17, 2002 rad tank thinkin of getin some clams how in the heck do u guys make thes cool skimmers???? Link to comment
CroceaMaxima Posted April 17, 2002 Author Share Posted April 17, 2002 The 70 W 6400K MH over 10G isn't as yellowish as the bigger bulbs. The color look very similar without the two actinic. Afterall, I had only 26W of 7100K PC, very litle blue supplimentation. Sorry no new pic in a while as my friend did me a favor wih his D-Camera. Link to comment
CroceaMaxima Posted April 17, 2002 Author Share Posted April 17, 2002 I feed the tank Phytoplex from Kent twice a week. As for the skimmer, I bought a Visi-Jet -PS Turbo-Venturui skimmer(made by Aquarium Systems) $33, came with a power head. It din't skim a thing after 3 days. I gave up on the Turbo-Venturi-way & saparated the powerhead to use for my 29 tank & use the rest of the skimmer collecion tube & cup, perfect height for 10G. Stick it with a air pump & good fat Corallife wooden air stone. Skim like a charm. break apart Link to comment
OscarBeast Posted April 17, 2002 Share Posted April 17, 2002 Depending on the size of that Maxima, you will want to feed more than that. The Crocea doesn't really need it, but that baby Maxima needs LOTS of food to grow, not just strong light. Link to comment
CroceaMaxima Posted April 19, 2002 Author Share Posted April 19, 2002 Hi, I'd like ti feed the Clam somthing else as well as the Plenktons. Any suggestions rather than the Yeast/blood suggested bt Daniel Karps 10 years ago? thx. Link to comment
OscarBeast Posted April 19, 2002 Share Posted April 19, 2002 DT's is great for clams. Another concern is that clams need some nitrates to make energy. If it is a clam only with nothing really producing nitrates, I don't know how sucessful this will be in the long run. The large clam may not be able to generate enough food from the light. You might ask around, but you might be better off adding a small fish. Link to comment
CroceaMaxima Posted April 20, 2002 Author Share Posted April 20, 2002 According the recent article from Marine Fish (The 2002 anual issue DT & Phytoplex provide same exact particle size 1-16 micron. DT is slghtly btter but only when fresh, as it's live. The Phytoplex store fresh longer. They don't complemet each other, esentialy getting either one would be the same. Somthing very different could be a better as second food. Good toughts on the fish! I did add a fish after these photo posting, a small cadinal for three reasons: 1, PJ Cardinal doesn't move around very much, less disterbing to the clams. 2, Eat the small bugs that's runing creazy on the glass. 3, produce nitrate to feed the clams. I removed the grapes as it crashed & it was a big bess to clean up. Link to comment
CroceaMaxima Posted June 27, 2002 Author Share Posted June 27, 2002 Two month later, I put 4 Clams in there! one Maxima 2.5 inch One Squamosa 3 inch one Crocea 5 Inch One the other Clam 4 inch. Has two fish now beacuse Nitrated too low, Funny that All hair Algae died!!! It's a big problem for my 29G Tank? May be Nitrated too Low? Ma Link to comment
NanoReefer53 Posted June 27, 2002 Share Posted June 27, 2002 yea, i noticed that algae dosen't really have a chance since i put in a 3in. crocea in my tank. The only problem is I have the clam and skimmer competing, haha. Hopefully the new damsels i got will fix the problem. Link to comment
Metznreef Posted June 27, 2002 Share Posted June 27, 2002 i can't see the pics????????? all there is is little red x's in a white box........ :confused: Link to comment
Treble Posted June 28, 2002 Share Posted June 28, 2002 I got the same thing I really like clams and would like to see the pictures if you have a hosting site maybe? Link to comment
Mr Spam Posted June 28, 2002 Share Posted June 28, 2002 red exes here to. any way to view the pics? Link to comment
JIM27 Posted June 28, 2002 Share Posted June 28, 2002 The pics were lost during the server change. They were posted back in april you know. Link to comment
SaltyDog Posted June 28, 2002 Share Posted June 28, 2002 Just some clarification... Everyone seems to think that many pictures where lost in the server transition, but it just isn't true. The pictures aren't lost, it's just the url's in the message posts are skewed... For example: Old broken link - http://www.nano-reef.com/mbimages/upload/10G-Nono.JPG New pointer to the same file - http://www.nano-reef.com/forums/mbimages/u...ad/10G-Nono.JPG Just with the 'forums' sub-directory added. Still there tho. Anyways, here are the pics: http://www.nano-reef.com/forums/mbimages/u...ad/10G-Nono.JPG http://www.nano-reef.com/forums/mbimages/u...load/Crocea.jpg http://www.nano-reef.com/forums/mbimages/u...roceaMaxima.JPG Enjoy. Link to comment
Metznreef Posted June 28, 2002 Share Posted June 28, 2002 sweet set up crocea. i love clams, i wanna set up a clam nano some day. but for now i'm poor and i'll just have to look at your pictures and dream.sigh............... (Edited by Metznreef at 11:36 am on June 28, 2002) Link to comment
JIM27 Posted June 28, 2002 Share Posted June 28, 2002 Quote: from SaltyDog on 3:27 am on June 28, 2002[br]Just some clarification... Everyone seems to think that many pictures where lost in the server transition, but it just isn't true. The pictures aren't lost, it's just the url's in the message posts are skewed... Oh. I remember Chris saying that some pics were lost during the server change but he was going to try to recover them. I guess he did. Link to comment
Mr Spam Posted June 28, 2002 Share Posted June 28, 2002 there still not comming up on mine. can some one post them again and perhaps it will work? Link to comment
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