How small were your clams? Did u do any kind of special feeding? What kinda lights for how many gallons? Where did u get the clams from?
What kinda light u using? Did it come from online or lfs?
What happened to the maxima? I had a clam get big after years also, sucks when they pass.
The maxima perished from a crocea that brought in pinched mantle and pyramid snails claimed our squamosa. That really bummed us out, had that clam since 2012 I believe, maybe earlier.
Success with small derasas. Not with crocea or maxima.
Beautiful tank and clams!They can be hard. If you are wanting blue, then get a blue squamosa - more money, but your success rate is MUCH better... even at less than three inches. I got these two blue squammies when they were about 2" about 4-5 years ago. They are getting big now and the big one probably would not fit in a 5g bucket and is quite heavy even in the water. The smaller one is 7 inches of shell. I got the deresa in the photo at about 2"... growing fast too, but not so much lately. I find crocea a bit easier than maxima when small, but they need more light. I would be shocked if the mortality rate of smaller maxima is not 95% plus, but we will never know.
I did get a few Cocos cultured blue maximas but they are 3". I wish that somebody would just keep some of these babies in the south pacific for another season and lets them get to 3" where the mortality would be a lot less. You are seeing this some with Deresa and Squamosa. I guess as long as people are buying 1.5-2.5" clams, then they probably never will.
Even though Squamosa and Deresa are much easier to raise, there is a downside... it always kills you to when you have to rehome them to larger tanks.
Sorry for the bad iPhone pic... and an old iPhone at that...
They can be hard. If you are wanting blue, then get a blue squamosa - more money, but your success rate is MUCH better... even at less than three inches. I got these two blue squammies when they were about 2" about 4-5 years ago. They are getting big now and the big one probably would not fit in a 5g bucket and is quite heavy even in the water. The smaller one is 7 inches of shell. I got the deresa in the photo at about 2"... growing fast too, but not so much lately. I find crocea a bit easier than maxima when small, but they need more light. I would be shocked if the mortality rate of smaller maxima is not 95% plus, but we will never know.
I did get a few Cocos cultured blue maximas but they are 3". I wish that somebody would just keep some of these babies in the south pacific for another season and lets them get to 3" where the mortality would be a lot less. You are seeing this some with Deresa and Squamosa. I guess as long as people are buying 1.5-2.5" clams, then they probably never will.
Even though Squamosa and Deresa are much easier to raise, there is a downside... it always kills you to when you have to rehome them to larger tanks.
Sorry for the bad iPhone pic... and an old iPhone at that...
