Best place to buy clams

clowndude · Jul 22, 2012

I've been looking for some different clams and they seem to be hard to find. Where is the best place to find some nice clams?

Loki · Jul 22, 2012

I have three and they all came from local reefers. I know one of my three was originally from the divers den on liveaquaria.com

Bigger clams (2+ inches) are able to handle shipping but I would try to not have one shipped smaller than that.

larryl · Jul 22, 2012

Pacificeast has killer clams.

skinz78 · Jul 22, 2012

I've had luck with a few of our great sponsors. I'd check out Aqua SD and ReefKoi first and see what they have. I'd stay away from the French Poly Maxima's though, I haven't had any luck at all with them.

pickupman66 · Jul 23, 2012

+1 to Pacific East. They attend our Frag swap and have some killer pieces. I cannot wait for them to come back to get another one.

3Twinklets · Jul 23, 2012

I also agree with Pacific East. I also would not purchase anything smaller than 2".

Andrew L · Jul 23, 2012

pacific east. just ordered one from them a few days ago. Clam is beautiful, best price probably you can get too. It was $150 for for a 5 inch super ultra grade maxima Tahitian clam. or you can take the $25 to live stock. shipping is cheaper than most other places too. after you recieve the animal they do a follow up call to make sure everything good. packing is great, triple packed with lots of air. Styrofoam and good care gone into shipping.

skinz78 · Jul 23, 2012

I've never had any luck with the large Maxima's from French Polynesia, you couldn't give me one no matter how beautiful it is.

Shauno · Jul 23, 2012

I would look at your LFS 1st. If you don't have a good one, I recommend these online sources:

vividaquariums.com
coralprops.com
aquasd.com
pacificeastaquaculture.com
barrierreefaquariums.com

josh4107 · Jul 23, 2012

live aquaria has some nice ones and some of them arent too expensive either. i got a turquise maxima around 1 1/2 inches from them for like $70 and its doing great. i dont trust the large maricultured clams either as i havent had success with them either :/

psionicdragon · Jul 25, 2012

pacific east coast aquaculture and liveaquaria

Acropora52 · Jul 31, 2012

I've had good luck with the last 4 clams I've gotten from pacific east aquaculture, ranging from 4-6"

reefkoi · Jul 31, 2012

+3 on the wild timebombs

ritter6788 · Jul 31, 2012

I got my derasa and maxima from Liveaquaria. Both came in healthy and pest free.

turbo21 · Jul 31, 2012

Every clam i have ever bought was locally. I have heard horror stories of clam shipping go wrong and cant just bring myself to try it. If i remember right, there was a giveaway a while back on here for a huge 11 or 12" clam and it died in transit

bob

Mike&Terry · Jul 31, 2012

turbo21 said:
Every clam i have ever bought was locally. I have heard horror stories of clam shipping go wrong and cant just bring myself to try it. If i remember right, there was a giveaway a while back on here for a huge 11 or 12" clam and it died in transit

bob

Wow, that's awful.

We used to keep clams in our DT and purchased a couple of small ones from Pacific East Aquaculture without issue.