which clam???

[BA]

when i add all my lights, to my 125, i will have 4 four foot VHO bulbs,tweo acitinic,two white, one 400wattsmh, and one 175watt mh, what clam would do best,and which ones are more hardy and more colorful???baiclly what is your info on them, and your experience w/ them too

[BA]

thx, Joshua, i asked this in the other thread....

so you feed them directly them like w/ anemones???what is best to feed them?

[MarkLW]

i'm getting ready to start my 120 gallon tank and bought a 250 watt mh that has not come in yet? the tank is 4 foot deep... will that be enough light for a couple of clams?

[TAXMAN]

Yea. GaryP has 2 nice clams on the sandbed under 2 250's. They looked great. I am haveving good luck so far with my gold teardrop maxima under 5 140w vho's right now. We'll see if I need to move him up in the tank later or not. "Fingers crossed"

[BA]

if you ever wanna get rid of him PM me

[TAXMAN]

Alex has 1st dib's on this one. But I do hope to keep him.

[BA]

AHH man, oh well, i hope he does well

[BA]

so what do you feed your johnny?

[BA]

does aquatic have pretty good prices on clams???where did ya'll get yours

[Bigreefer]

www.clamsdirect.com is a great place to buy nd discuss clams!

I have 2 250W MH 10K's on my 125. I've had my 4 croceas, 2 maximas, 2 squamosas for just under a year. They are all doing fine and putting on a nice thick shell sitting on my sand bed. I feed DT's phyto three times a week.

1 250 W MH will be fine as long as you dose phyto...

Jason

[Bigreefer]

Ohh.... you shouldn't have a problem keeping 3"+ clams under 400W MH... Just be careful not to burn them . Clams are senseitive to light changes. It's best to place them in the shade at first, them slowly move them into the light. I learned this the hard way with a beautiful maxima. (RIP clamy!)
If the clams are under than 2-3" they don't need much light just a lot of phyto.

This is a great book on them.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/3921684234/qid=1087535613/sr=8-1/ref=pd_ka_1/002-1943006-8704808?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

[TAXMAN]

I feed Phyto. I am spot feeding it right now because of the light change. And when I had the 400's running they did burn easily if they were too high in the tank. I had to live and learn and then put them all on the bottom. Even the Crocea burned. But he came back fine.

[StephenA]

Read the book BigReefer posted!

I keep Maximas and Derasas under 2 150Watt MH and they do fine. I've raised 2 1" gold maximas with good results. I feed mine Bio Plankton in the tank and direct about once a week.

[BA]

thx for the response, i guess i'll be spending some more time on clamdirect's website... :-D

[BA]

hey how bout some pics of your clams and their info.(name...size...etc)