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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ส.ค. 2024
- For this video, we are continuing our ever popular series with one of the most popular and highly sought after clam, the maxima clams.
Bold, beautiful and vastly unique in colors and patterns it's not surprising that these are favorites of so many clam keepers around the world. I got a word that huge Red Sea aquacultured clams were coming in so I got together with Jake Phillips of Biota Aquariums to discuss about this wonderful specie of clam and how to properly take care of them and have them thrive in our home aquariums.
Enjoy!
Great episode 👌🔥💯✌️
Thank you !
I have always been more drawn towards croceas. I kept a huge maxima years back that was pretty, but I feel croceas colors/patterns are out of this world. Great video!
Hi! Thank you for watching the video and for the comment.
Croceas are one of my favorite as well. I absolutely love the patterns and colors like you said. Having said this, I need to get more croceas for my aquarium 😆
Meanwhile, check out the crocea clam video that I made with ORA.
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@@Reefscom I love that last video you did on the croceas! I am going to watch it again. I just bought two ora ultras that are coming in on Friday, so I’m kinda clam obsessed right now, haha
@BIG-ES- I'm right there with you. Need to make a shirt that says clam obsessed lol! If you decide any photos or videos of your tank with the new clams be sure to link me so I can check them out! :)
This is my playlist of all the clams that I filmed over the years. I think I have 6 or 7 different species of them here.
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Awesome video super informative thank you so much, those clams are stunning!!
You are very welcome! I'm glad that you enjoyed it! Which pattern and colors are your favorite?
oh gosh it’s so hard to chose a favourite, they are soo stunning, 0:40 the natural pigment and iridescence is really cool to see in the green highlights.
For sure! Those blue and teal are just 👌 @@Jushwa
Will have to check out what's available... but always worried about shipping since I keep getting Amazon stuff lost lately.
You can pick something up at global. ;)
So much clam I had to hide my screen when my wife came in the room
😆 blessed to have a wife who loves the hobby as well!
I know crocea aren't the species being talked about here, but I'm not sure crocea can be lumped into the "painfully slow" category. I've grown a captive-spawned crocea from a 4cm juvenile to a 15cm monster in the space of 2 years without doing anything particularly sophisticated. For most of its life, it was growing in a 10 gallon (37L) nano (kept stable with waterchanges and a dosing pump). I mean sure, growth is probably slow compared to derasa or gigas, but an animal that goes from shading an area of 4 x 4cm to 15 x 15cm over two years is growing faster than most people's SPS. I think some of the major limiters to Tridacna growth are: Insufficient food because tanks are filtered too strongly; the lack of full spectrum (i.e. visually white) light; and the fact that people put them on the bottom of their tanks (which you addressed). Basically all of the available scientific literature about Tridacna photosynthesis that I could find pointed to the fact that they need more light from the lower end of the spectrum than corals do, and for crocea and maxima, generally more light than most corals like too.
Hi Owen, thanks for watching the video and sharing your experience with us!
It was clumped in because it usually takes farms a few years to get to sellable 2.5 to 4cm from spawn settlements. Compared to faster growing giant clams in the same Tridanca family, it would be night and day difference as they only take a few months to be shipped to be sold. Once it reaches certain sizes, it does grow a bit faster but still slower than their faster growing counterparts. Fantastic job in growing T. crocea in a 10g tank! It must not have been easy!
Thanks,@@Reefscom. I suppose I just consider the large Tridacna species to grow crazy fast, rather than the smaller two growing very slowly. Semantics, really. Half inch to an inch a year seems slow for ones that are past marketable size, although if that's half an inch to an inch of shell as measured from the umbo, that would make more sense.
Believe it or not, growing the crocea out in a 10g genuinely wasn't that difficult. I just built my reef around IT. The tank was lit with an AI Prime 16HD for the first year or so, then I upgraded to a Hydra 32HD (mostly for the clam). It was centimetres below the surface, cradled in a floating island of live rock until it got so large it started hosing down the wall. Other than that, all I did was regular 50% waterchanges with buffered NSW (readily available in Oz where I live), and dosed a two-part solution. Honestly not a lot more work than a "standard" reef tank of the same size would probably demand. The tank was fed with a few liquid foods from time to time, but again, nothing too extravagant or unusual.
@owenli7180 oh I believe it. I saw Julian growing one in 1.5g tank! His first book cover actually shows that one! Great job none the less. Do you still have the crocea? 😀
Yes, @@Reefscom , I still have the crocea! I actually upgraded to a 55g cube, and it sits in pride of place, right in the centre of the tank, cradled in the hard scape. It's still the "favourite child". Its growth doesn't seem to be slowing down, either. It's getting to the point, where I'm wondering whether it's abnormal for its species. It's definitely a crocea, but it's rapidly getting to their L(infinity)!
Neon Dottybacks will also eat clams with fleshy bits hanging out. I've found out the hard way 😢
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I am building a system of a 200 gallon peninsula and a 50 gallon lagoon both plumbed to the same 49 gallon Geo's reef sump. I want to put just clams in the 50 gallon. I have a Gyre 350 and 2 x MP40's on the back glass. The lights are a Neptune Sky and Kessil A360X. I don't want any sand or fish in with the clams. Are urchins a good choice for clean up crew for that tank? The 200 will be SPS and small fish.
Depending on the urchin, but yes, they can be good cuc for that tank for sure. Is there any particular reason for avoiding snails? 🙂
I lost my first maxima after 3 weeks , I was told that if my iodine was low this could cause a problem , sent out my water to be tested and the iodine was low along with minor elements, everything else was good . Wondering how important is the iodine ?
Iodine can play a factor. My iodine level is always on low levels despite my dosing, but my clams seem to be doing OK. I had the most success with them, especially when they were small to place them high and blast them with light and feed them with phytoplankton until they grew a bit larger. I got this idea from my fellow clam lover, Jake Adams.
The burping thing doesn't make sense to me. I've seen tridacna clams completely out of water in the wild during low tide, so if they can't get rid of air then that population would have gone extinct.
@zakarymcleod1850 i hear you. I'm sure that the case isn't very often. I have covered it on my other clam video, but I wanted to explain. From what I have heard, clams, when stressed enough, won't be able to expel air out of themselves, which in turn will turn fatal for them. Since we spend a good amount on these beautiful animals, and want the best possible outcome for these beautiful animals, any precautions that we can take to make proper acclimation and make the adjustment easier for the animals, people gravitated towards it. While, mostly unnecessary, I think it's a good habit. Thanks for watching the video and leaving a comment!
Bearded?
Bearded? 🤔
@@Reefscom Or are you a chocolate starfish man?
@@northeastcorals 🤣 I still don't know what you meant by bearded lol
@@Reefscom don't lower yourself to looking it up, I'm was being extremely childish 🤣
@@northeastcorals 😆