My New Teardrop
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Very nice. A green one. That got to set you back quite a bit. I love it.
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Overboard
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A year of ago, I was certain I would never see a colored teardrop again, let alone be able to get one. Maybe 15 years since I had one and I have a soft spot for them, no doubt!
Way back in the early 2000's, I got a red-pink "teardrop Maxima" He did not live for more than 1 week, and I have never seen anything like that anymore. It was in the early day when collecting and shipping problem plaque the clams from Vietnam. If it live, It would have been a very expensive clam now.
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Wow! I would love to see a clam like that. I have seen green and blue and sort of a mixture of the two, but red-pink would be amazing!
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We are just beginning to see some again after a long dry spell. I think these are from Tonga.
Where are your teardrops coming from?
MartinM
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Origins haven’t changed (tonga, Vietnam, Australia aquacultured, Marshall Islands, aqua/mariculture) but it seems most of them have been shipping to Europe and Japan, as aquarists there and here are willing to pay more. Of course, with flights/COVID the last year they’ve really fallen off, there are barely any direct flights so importing is difficult/impossible. 
Supposedly importing will pick back up here in April, we’ll see...
Supposedly importing will pick back up here in April, we’ll see...
