Hi LOVE your collection. Food candy! Donyou sell clams to Texas? No idea what kind of money a small blue sturdy guy would run me. What is that green and purple growth in your near your flowery soft pink coral and the wall coral? I have such a hard time remembering the sps or lps names. CLAM- I recently saw our neon pink zoa live rock colony (doing great btw) move!! And it was part of the bare rock that moved. No crabs or polyp activity. I thought I was sleep deprived and paranoid, normal for me, because we had just lost two elegance corals and found a gall crab. Parasites freak me out period! Also seeing a few V-Snails on frag plugs and doing our best to manually remove. Added 3 bumblebees but doubt this will help much on large outbreaks but I understand it’s a war not a battle. No evidence of them taking over in mass yet but I know separation is helpful. Along with cutters and glue. Back to Clam: Me thinking it was some critter that SOMEHOW survived a very heavy peroxide and RO dip months ago when we got it, I had to convince my boyfriend something else was moving this live rock door flap!! We took it out and realize it was a little clam or muscle of some sort. Now I’m obsessed with getting one of these the blue Speciosa?? Or something (short term memory). Or any of these beautiful clams. May start with something small like an disco clam (red with little light shows) first if it does anything to help filter🙄 I KNOW I’ll catch slack for this, but let’s be humble. We’re also TRYING to get the most natural filtration possible and I know clams play a huge part along with all filter feeders, and adding Chateo spaghetti algae. We had half this equipment already and really the Mantis was our main reason for going salt not coral but saltwater and it’s alien world is a gateway drug for addictions lol. -Any idea WHAT my mystery clam is, how it survived? It doesn’t open more than a millimeter and funnily looks like an alligator or even Oscar the Grouch tucked in his Little Rock trash can. Colony is super healthy despite how much crawls on it! 🦀🐚 We now call this coral piece the Gator🐊, because he has little red zoa eyes and it’s so obvious when you look. Will try to post video. I was weirdly excited when I found this, as we almost gave up on this hobby altogether, equipment costs were overwhelming me along with the loss of two beautiful Aussie elegance and several fish fish in to beginning. Felt literally like Tom Hanks in Money Pit. Should’ve started smaller too. They just don’t seem to handle anything well! It’s been quite the battle but I don’t want to give up. Also everything in your tank I love! We really want to try some encrusting coral on skulls and build a sort of toadstool (figurative) or mushroom tower with coralline colored reef cement and have upward growth and possibly host clams there. Then more stingy@ LPS on the others. Would LOVE a Duncan! We had a big PVC tube that housed our very sweet peacock mantis named Boudreaux, RIP, I think he was older when we got him. Very curious and active, loved his tank mates, but completely covered in shell rot. It was there when we got him but I thought it was just signs of molting. After 4 months it was worse and he could not molt no matter how much I gave him to do so. We had to put him down yesterday humanely but finding a clam gave me hope! As long as critters leave it be 😑😑 Anyway we can split the parge PVC cover it in the reef cement and utilize growing up instead of using rock structures for everything. It should be said: I’m very determined to use as little heavy duty, equipment as possible at least for now as I have a lot of fully functional large F Water tanks (6) that take care of themselves through nature. I know the salt and reef hobby is trigonometry compare to 8th grade math BUT I don’t want to bankrupt myself if I can use nature to help. Especially for now Started this tank in January and surprised how far we’ve come. Running 55g long, Eheim classic canister filter with biometrix media, newly added built in Refugium, all kinds of supplement and feed food. 1 lawnmower Blenni 1 engineer goby (about 4”) 2 conches Like 10 blue, red and almost black (hermits) 2 Mexican turbos 2 other rocky/spikey snails (forgot the name) 2 porcelain crabs 1 is Slim Shady and a straight G. He’s kinda green but with spots. 1 of the porcelains is red and must’ve been scared by Shady because he threw a claw and now I can’t find him. 😐 Mixture of zoas, a few palys (in very containable spots to prevent spreading.) We LOVE our mushrooms, 3 Yuma’s, 1 orange Florida Ricordhea with two mouths, 1 green Bounce Rhodactis, 1 red rhod that looks like a hobbit house, 1 razor mushroom (rainbow color seashell look, not doing so great, free gift) 1 green and blue Torch Firework Clove Polyps in quarantine 1 encrusting wall growing coral, maybe Mr, Freeze variety, another freebie, looks like a mermaid head right now. Tank parameters 0 Am 0 Ni 20-40 Na (working on it) Mag and Calcium in the upper 400s Salinity 1.024 or about 34% PH: around 8.0 Alk is around 11 or 12 according to LFS. Trace elements being added occasionally. Copepods dosed. Small amount of wet live rock. Phosphate unknown but using chemi pure carbon and phosphate remover now in canister filter to clean up. AI blade light 20” on coral side. (sorry no idea par levels but it’s mostly Royal blue, 50% blue and about 5-10% white. 60% intensity on Mobius app with moon feature. 76 degrees. I only have the API salt test kit, so getting the specifics is hard. Not much ugly algae right now honestly, already hit a couple ugly stages. Cyano and green hair.
Thanks for the update. This was helpful. I want to keep class again in my new build. I kept 2 crocea a long time ago. I only had them a year. Which species would you suggest for someone just getting back into class. I do not know what prices are like now since I kept my clams over 10 years ago.
Hi LOVE your collection. Food candy! Donyou sell clams to Texas? No idea what kind of money a small blue sturdy guy would run me.
What is that green and purple growth in your near your flowery soft pink coral and the wall coral?
I have such a hard time remembering the sps or lps names.
CLAM- I recently saw our neon pink zoa live rock colony (doing great btw) move!! And it was part of the bare rock that moved. No crabs or polyp activity.
I thought I was sleep deprived and paranoid, normal for me, because we had just lost two elegance corals and found a gall crab. Parasites freak me out period!
Also seeing a few V-Snails on frag plugs and doing our best to manually remove. Added 3 bumblebees but doubt this will help much on large outbreaks but I understand it’s a war not a battle. No evidence of them taking over in mass yet but I know separation is helpful. Along with cutters and glue.
Back to Clam: Me thinking it was some critter that SOMEHOW survived a very heavy peroxide and RO dip months ago when we got it, I had to convince my boyfriend something else was moving this live rock door flap!!
We took it out and realize it was a little clam or muscle of some sort. Now I’m obsessed with getting one of these the blue Speciosa?? Or something (short term memory). Or any of these beautiful clams. May start with something small like an disco clam (red with little light shows) first if it does anything to help filter🙄
I KNOW I’ll catch slack for this, but let’s be humble.
We’re also TRYING to get the most natural filtration possible and I know clams play a huge part along with all filter feeders, and adding Chateo spaghetti algae. We had half this equipment already and really the Mantis was our main reason for going salt not coral but saltwater and it’s alien world is a gateway drug for addictions lol.
-Any idea WHAT my mystery clam is, how it survived?
It doesn’t open more than a millimeter and funnily looks like an alligator or even Oscar the Grouch tucked in his Little Rock trash can. Colony is super healthy despite how much crawls on it! 🦀🐚
We now call this coral piece the Gator🐊, because he has little red zoa eyes and it’s so obvious when you look. Will try to post video.
I was weirdly excited when I found this, as we almost gave up on this hobby altogether, equipment costs were overwhelming me along with the loss of two beautiful Aussie elegance and several fish fish in to beginning.
Felt literally like Tom Hanks in Money Pit. Should’ve started smaller too. They just don’t seem to handle anything well! It’s been quite the battle but I don’t want to give up.
Also everything in your tank I love! We really want to try some encrusting coral on skulls and build a sort of toadstool (figurative) or mushroom tower with coralline colored reef cement and have upward growth and possibly host clams there. Then more stingy@ LPS on the others.
Would LOVE a Duncan!
We had a big PVC tube that housed our very sweet peacock mantis named Boudreaux, RIP, I think he was older when we got him. Very curious and active, loved his tank mates, but completely covered in shell rot. It was there when we got him but I thought it was just signs of molting. After 4 months it was worse and he could not molt no matter how much I gave him to do so. We had to put him down yesterday humanely but finding a clam gave me hope! As long as critters leave it be 😑😑
Anyway we can split the parge PVC cover it in the reef cement and utilize growing up instead of using rock structures for everything.
It should be said:
I’m very determined to use as little heavy duty, equipment as possible at least for now as I have a lot of fully functional large F Water tanks (6) that take care of themselves through nature.
I know the salt and reef hobby is trigonometry compare to 8th grade math BUT I don’t want to bankrupt myself if I can use nature to help. Especially for now
Started this tank in January and surprised how far we’ve come. Running 55g long, Eheim classic canister filter with biometrix media, newly added built in Refugium, all kinds of supplement and feed food.
1 lawnmower Blenni
1 engineer goby (about 4”)
2 conches
Like 10 blue, red and almost black (hermits)
2 Mexican turbos
2 other rocky/spikey snails (forgot the name)
2 porcelain crabs 1 is Slim Shady and a straight G. He’s kinda green but with spots.
1 of the porcelains is red and must’ve been scared by Shady because he threw a claw and now I can’t find him. 😐
Mixture of zoas, a few palys (in very containable spots to prevent spreading.)
We LOVE our mushrooms,
3 Yuma’s,
1 orange Florida Ricordhea with two mouths,
1 green Bounce Rhodactis, 1 red rhod that looks like a hobbit house, 1 razor mushroom (rainbow color seashell look, not doing so great, free gift)
1 green and blue Torch
Firework Clove Polyps in quarantine
1 encrusting wall growing coral, maybe Mr, Freeze variety, another freebie, looks like a mermaid head right now.
Tank parameters
0 Am
0 Ni
20-40 Na (working on it)
Mag and Calcium in the upper 400s
Salinity 1.024 or about 34%
PH: around 8.0
Alk is around 11 or 12 according to LFS.
Trace elements being added occasionally.
Copepods dosed.
Small amount of wet live rock.
Phosphate unknown but using chemi pure carbon and phosphate remover now in canister filter to clean up.
AI blade light 20” on coral side. (sorry no idea par levels but it’s mostly Royal blue, 50% blue and about 5-10% white. 60% intensity on Mobius app with moon feature.
76 degrees.
I only have the API salt test kit, so getting the specifics is hard.
Not much ugly algae right now honestly, already hit a couple ugly stages. Cyano and green hair.
I feel like your elegance happened to your frogspawn
Excellent Reefing Skills
Thanks 👍
What do you feed them? I’m planning to get two maximas 3-4” and bought two hammocks for each one
Thanks for the update. This was helpful. I want to keep class again in my new build. I kept 2 crocea a long time ago. I only had them a year. Which species would you suggest for someone just getting back into class. I do not know what prices are like now since I kept my clams over 10 years ago.
Good luck!