clam decided to spawn last night!!

[Big_Pun]

so i tweaked my system a lil too much last night, i decided to do a big water change and Vacuum the sand. also added a larger media reactor for gfo. so get up at about 130am and of course look into the tank and notice its cloudy..... just great so first though Kalk reactor took a dump, so i look and all is fine. wave around the flashlight in tank and bam the clam is "smoking". Just great just what i need tonight, luckily i have one clam or they would of all been doing the same. so i pull it out put in bucket of tank water, good thing i have 15g of premix. i put new filter socks turn on mp-40 from night mode to nutrient extract pulled out the big air pump and added airstones
you would think spawning clam is cool. but no! the clam releases eggs and sperm(lots) which dies in hours. this will cause a ammonia spike and also consume oxygen causing a very quick crash.
All is well this morn, fish came out at 7 as the sun rose over the tank.

http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2009/8/inverts

[LuckySingh]

Ya man it's nice watching it ...but scary when my giant clam spawned the night before I left and I had to do about 30 gln water change at 2am in the morning ...lol

[Big_Pun]

my coral had a late dinner

[RayAllen]

The Positive- You have one happy clam man. A lot of people have horrible luck with them

[Big_Pun]

The Positive- You have one happy clam man. A lot of people have horrible luck with them

got him from gabe when he was at evers, ive had it a while. up until last week it was attached to a rock under the blue milli. the milli has grow to the point it was blocking light so one day i found it rolled over on the sand, dislodged itself reaching for light

[350gt]

Must be the lights!!!!


and you said led can't replicate the sun... Lol

[Big_Pun]

Must be the lights!!!!


and you said led can't replicate the sun... Lol

read the article it states stress can induce it....

[Andresm]

Nice to see u Vacuum ur sand!!!!!

[350gt]

read the article it states stress can induce it....

Idk about you but I don't spawn under stress.....

[Flyride95]

Lmao I was just about to make a comment about his new lights lol