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I recieved a PM from someone wanting a picture of a True blue squamosa. I figured that many of you would enjoy reading my reply so I am going to post it here. (PS, downloading my pictures for desktops is fine but please limit it do that, no printing or posting them on your website, or emailing them to friends)
Well is it blue? Is it a squamosa? If you just said yes twice then you have got yourself a blue squamosa. Its as simple as that. Yes I will post a picture of the clam you are seeking but it is the pattern that makes it so nice looking.
In the aquarium trade squamosa's are generally brown.
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I used to just accept this as a fact of life, most squamosa's are brown. But then I come to Australia. After 15 dives on the GBR, only 20% of the squamosa's I have seen have been brown. The rest have had at least some blue to it.
I would love to post more pictures of wild clams because they are magnificient but I flooded my camera a few weeks ago. Not only are wild squamosa's blue, half of the deresa's I have seen have been blue too. You know the picture of the electric crocea blue deresa. That isnt just an anomaly. They really do exist. I am very curious why the % blue of wild clams is so much greater than the % blue of cultured blue clams. Is it that brown ones are less likely to survive in the wild than blue ones? Or is it some condition in the ocean that makes them blue?
Here is a typical wild squamosa. Sory but it's the only wild clam picture I have yet....Getting a replacement camera in two weeks.
Wild
But even this wild blue squamosa doesnt compair to the clam that was refered to in the PM. So I guess he did have a point that not all blue squamosa's are equally magnificient.
Here it is for you the famous blue squamosa.
Cultured from unknown location
Pattern comparison.
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Notice the different pattern between these two clams. This is what makes my clam different than most blue squamosa's. The first clam is almost a solid colour with some darker stripes. The second one is an exageration of the comon spotted pattern. It has colourfull spots over a dark background. The spotted pattern is more common. I like the striped pattern much better.
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Two more spotted blue squamosa's.
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Collected from wild
Well is it blue? Is it a squamosa? If you just said yes twice then you have got yourself a blue squamosa. Its as simple as that. Yes I will post a picture of the clam you are seeking but it is the pattern that makes it so nice looking.
In the aquarium trade squamosa's are generally brown.
ORA
I used to just accept this as a fact of life, most squamosa's are brown. But then I come to Australia. After 15 dives on the GBR, only 20% of the squamosa's I have seen have been brown. The rest have had at least some blue to it.
I would love to post more pictures of wild clams because they are magnificient but I flooded my camera a few weeks ago. Not only are wild squamosa's blue, half of the deresa's I have seen have been blue too. You know the picture of the electric crocea blue deresa. That isnt just an anomaly. They really do exist. I am very curious why the % blue of wild clams is so much greater than the % blue of cultured blue clams. Is it that brown ones are less likely to survive in the wild than blue ones? Or is it some condition in the ocean that makes them blue?
Here is a typical wild squamosa. Sory but it's the only wild clam picture I have yet....Getting a replacement camera in two weeks.
Wild
But even this wild blue squamosa doesnt compair to the clam that was refered to in the PM. So I guess he did have a point that not all blue squamosa's are equally magnificient.
Here it is for you the famous blue squamosa.
Cultured from unknown location
Pattern comparison.
ORA
Notice the different pattern between these two clams. This is what makes my clam different than most blue squamosa's. The first clam is almost a solid colour with some darker stripes. The second one is an exageration of the comon spotted pattern. It has colourfull spots over a dark background. The spotted pattern is more common. I like the striped pattern much better.
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Two more spotted blue squamosa's.
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Collected from wild
) first one I've seen for sale in years
