Our First Clam!

_Alex_ · Oct 30, 2011

So went to the LFS that i hadnt been to for a while and they had these beautiful small 2" maxima's!! i had to have one as amanda has been wanting one for the past 2 years since we saw one in the LFS. so i pulled the trigger, it opened up to this within about 30 min of beeing in the tank after acclimating. this morning it seems to have moved around a bit trying to get anchored in the substrate! hope it gets happy!

sorry for the poor pics all i have is my phone :squigglemouth: hopefulyl santa will be nice and bring me a new camera this year!!

skinz78 · Oct 30, 2011

Nice looking electric blue! If you have any questions feel free to ask.

fraggingfish · Oct 30, 2011

That crab looks hungry lol

Reef lvr · Oct 30, 2011

Very nice color pattern!!

_Alex_ · Oct 30, 2011

Thanks guys! Going to do some looking threw forums before I ask to much!

_Alex_ · Oct 30, 2011

fraggingfish said:
That crab looks hungry lol

Lol he never touched the mantle! Just something new they gotta check out!

skoolz · Oct 30, 2011

what a beauty!!

larryl · Oct 30, 2011

Sweet looking clam.

rjcranor · Oct 30, 2011

Very nice I had 1done like it a few years ago, but my emerald crab ate it the night I bought it. Hope all goes well.

_Alex_ · Oct 30, 2011

no emeralds in this tank :neutral: and evreything in here has been good, have scolly and some chalices that were all but dead and healing back and they dont bother them. so hopefully the same for the clam!!

skinz78 · Oct 30, 2011

Emerald crabs won't kill them, they are there just cleaning up the mess afterwards. It sounds to me like the clam was stressed and near death before you bought it.

_Alex_ · Oct 30, 2011

hmm gonna have to move amanda electric blue crab to the 75... he keeps wanting to play soccer with the litle clam it seems.... he doesnt chew on anything just is a 2" bulldozer.......we have a smaller one we will replace him with

_Alex_ · Nov 27, 2011

justa quick update, i moved the clam up onto the rock work it never seemed to wanna put its foot down and grab hold in the sand. now it seems to ahve grabbed a hold and is opening up the most i have seen it yet!! i will say for only having one small clam it does suck up some calcium!! but other than that it appears to be doign great! ill try and get some more pics of it on the rocks later tonight after the lights come on

_Alex_ · Dec 3, 2011

here are a few cruddy pics of the clam on its new rock perch! its about half way up the tnak under 2x 39watt t5ho ATI aqueblue special and purple+. goign to be switching to LEds hopefully soon

and also hope santa will bring me a cannon or nikon camera :tongue:

here it was in the sand. this end is the same end you are seeing in the above pics and it wasnt even clsoe to opening up all the way when in the sand!!

skinz78 · Dec 4, 2011

Looking good!

bmw-legend · Dec 7, 2011

Look great...very nice.

_Alex_ · Dec 15, 2011

well it would appear that the clam doesnt like it on the rocks so much after being up there now for 3 weeks.... it has bailed off now 2 days in a row... and as of right now as its foot attached to the stem of our lobo lol..... so im waiting for it to move away and see where it goes i guess.... im set it in the sand once it lets go of the lobo!!

Alistar · Dec 15, 2011

Nice clam!

bige · Dec 15, 2011

How much light is down there? Those zoas are really reaching. Love that meat coral. Awesome clam. I have tried several but to no success.

_Alex_ · Jan 29, 2012

wow bene a while since i looked at this lol... and coming back with no good news....

clam had and been looking great!!! finally moved itself to a spot it liked and settled in!! so we thought....... went to bed last night looked great and nothing out of the normal.... worked around the hosue all day today not looking at the tnak becuase our lights dont come on intill 3pm becuase thats when we get home from work durring the week.... well they come on, wife got home shortly later and we sat down and looked at the tank, just to see an empy clam shell..... was a hermit crab in it but he had no meat or anything so im sure was just checking it out..... no idea what happend. went from open wide and great color to gone.......

must have a killer in the tnak somewhere.....

and by the way those pali have reached up like that no matter where i put them.... i ahve had them 6" under 4xt5ho's with all ati bulbs and they reach like that lol