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Clams

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Dave

Is the industry short on decent maxima clams. Seems like they are in short supply, and the few that are available are not very attractive.


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Dave

Jeremy Brito said:
i was told once that clams are extremely hard to care for do to there requirements for NANO sized food and water conditions is this true?
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I had good luck with mine until my tank crashed. Size matters, since smaller clams need nano food, but 3 inches and larger mainly use photosynthesis.


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JRWOHLER

JRWOHLER

What Dave said, under three inches and you are buying shells for ornaments. I have found that feeding them when young some sort of phytoplankton is very helpful. My Derasa is about a foot now and my maxima is 6 inches maybe. So something works.
 
Jeremy Brito

Jeremy Brito

JRWOHLER said:
What Dave said, under three inches and you are buying shells for ornaments. I have found that feeding them when young some sort of phytoplankton is very helpful. My Derasa is about a foot now and my maxima is 6 inches maybe. So something works.
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That's good to know any idea how fast they grow I was looking at some earlier not for my tank buy just out of curiosity and they looked huge
 
JRWOHLER

JRWOHLER

Well my Derasa has grown much faster than the Maxima. I have had the Maxima 7.5 years and the Derasa 8.5 to give you an idea.
Both started about 3 inches...the Derasa probably weighs in at 9-10 lbs. I know there is a correlation between calcium and growth but don't know what the exact impact would be.
 
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