Morning Sun on the Crocea

are you sure the sun is enough light for a clam?

well, i am waiting for an actinic dwarf star i just won on ebay. the clam (and everything else on earth) should fluoresce pretty well once i fire that baby up!

i figure once they fire up that french doomsday machine we'll have them in mass-production! it's a mini-star like their mini-black holes.

wait, the ocean isn't lit by MH and T5 lighting? confused...

no... I heard the ocean just upgraded to a high power LED micro-processor controlled system. There was a slight bit of contention from the South Pacific contingent on the watts-per-gallon issue, but it finally passed the board and they spent some 650 Trillion on the LED system.

Wait, the ocean doesn't get it's light through a window at an angle into a house, does it? I'm confused too.

And I'm confused too....Isn't the sun just as bright in the tropical South Pacific regions as it is in Jersey????

well, yard and mitch do have a point. (smart-asses) it ISN'T the same as lying on the tahaitian beach as lounging in my living room. there's no nekkid native wimmen running amok!

it's that difference that is the mystery though (sunlight differential, not the nekkid wimmen).

is the NJ latitude sunlight through a couple of inches of sw similar/equivalent to tropical sun bearing through a couple of feet of sw? so far it's been sufficent/equivalent for other corals, but this is the real test imo.

well, actually it was this or acropora but i hate keeping acros!

where does the ocean get its electricity to run its lighting? where are the plugs? i bet its electricity bill costs a lot.

The clam is very cool. But I agree with everyone here you may need more light for it as odd as it sounds. I have raised this issue with my LFS and a customer I have who is a Marine Biologist @ Marineland here in Ontario.

Thay both said the ocean and the microbes in it magnify the suns intensity. I was confused because I scubba dive and it gets dark down their where some of this stuff lives.

Keep me posted on how the clams does though. How long has it lived in the window?

khay, it's a very recent addition. this is my current sunlit pico thread.

we'll see how it goes. a squamosa would've been easy imo (i'm positive there's enough light for it, or a derasa) but a crocea or maxima? that's what i'm going to find out. sizing really eliminated everything else but the croc though.