Barebottom and Clams

[flycasterjosh]

Howdy,

I am in the process of switching out to barebottom and wondered if any of you had particular experience with clams in this environment, and how you have attached them. I have maxima, crocea, derasa and squamosa. Kind of nice to have a sand bed for these when they shoot themselves around. Thoughts or thread references? Any other concerns?

Thanks in advance,

Josh

 

[Julio]

i actually kept all kinds of clams on a barebottom surface and they just fine, grea out normally and all, as long as you are not blasting water into yoru tank they will not swirl at the bottom and will stay put, but if you want to attach them to a rock place a flat rock under them for a few days and they will do the rest.

 

[chaffey]

I got bare bottom and the clams keep moving around due to wavebox, I put them on my LR and they attached right away. I also put LS into a small container and placed them inside, I hate to see my snail, shrimp, hermit crabs keeping going underneath my large clams and stress them out.

 

[bergzy]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9637914#post9637914 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Julio
...but if you want to attach them to a rock place a flat rock under them for a few days and they will do the rest.

i highly recommend you finding some flat live rock to put them on so that they can attach on to.

if they attach to the bottom of the tank...youre going to have a hard time getting them off and also risk damaging them in the process.

i have my three clams attach to flat live rock, large clam shells etc with lower flow 'then' i turn up the flow to normal (not blasting them) and they stay put without tipping over...but more importantly...they are attached to something.