piercho
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I would appreciate your advice. I will recieve a 4" squamosa and 3" maxima from Barry in a week. These will be my first clams. Here is my general plan for integrating them. Please offer your comments.
The clams will go in a isolation tank for 7 days after I recieve them from Barry. Barry will have had them for nearly two weeks. The q tank lighting is PC and the clams will go on eggcrate so that I can lift them very close to the PC lights. The tank is heavily skimmed for it's size and I'll run carbon changed frequently. If the clams are doing well and I can't find any parasites doing nightly inspections, they will then go in the main tank. Both will initially go on the sand bed, with the maxima brought up closer to the 250W Iwasakis by raising it's level weekly. The maxima will be encourage to attach to a shell so that he can be moved without cutting bysal filaments. The maxima is a very bright blue, so I'm assuming that it will want intense light.
My tank is 15 months old and i've kept stony coral for 11 months. I've had no mortalities of the coral or anemones that I've introduced, so I assume that I have some basics down. I keep Ca above 400, TA around 3.0 meq/L, and the pH is stable near 8.1. SG is 1.0255 at 81F. Makeup is with limewater, and I use B-ionic if needed. The plan is to start dosing Koral VitF (B-fortified yeast) and DT's (nano), ramping up to the recommended dosage of each if water quality can be maintained. I already have a lot of self-spreading fanworms and sponges without using these supplements. I use a 6' tall air CC skimmer almost continuously on this tank, and run enough carbon to clear the yellow in the water about every other week. My habit is large water changes (IO) every 4-8 weeks.
I've read D. Knop's "Giant Clams" and all his articles, a couple of times each.
The clams will go in a isolation tank for 7 days after I recieve them from Barry. Barry will have had them for nearly two weeks. The q tank lighting is PC and the clams will go on eggcrate so that I can lift them very close to the PC lights. The tank is heavily skimmed for it's size and I'll run carbon changed frequently. If the clams are doing well and I can't find any parasites doing nightly inspections, they will then go in the main tank. Both will initially go on the sand bed, with the maxima brought up closer to the 250W Iwasakis by raising it's level weekly. The maxima will be encourage to attach to a shell so that he can be moved without cutting bysal filaments. The maxima is a very bright blue, so I'm assuming that it will want intense light.
My tank is 15 months old and i've kept stony coral for 11 months. I've had no mortalities of the coral or anemones that I've introduced, so I assume that I have some basics down. I keep Ca above 400, TA around 3.0 meq/L, and the pH is stable near 8.1. SG is 1.0255 at 81F. Makeup is with limewater, and I use B-ionic if needed. The plan is to start dosing Koral VitF (B-fortified yeast) and DT's (nano), ramping up to the recommended dosage of each if water quality can be maintained. I already have a lot of self-spreading fanworms and sponges without using these supplements. I use a 6' tall air CC skimmer almost continuously on this tank, and run enough carbon to clear the yellow in the water about every other week. My habit is large water changes (IO) every 4-8 weeks.
I've read D. Knop's "Giant Clams" and all his articles, a couple of times each.