I posted this earlier, when someone else was saying they "heard" that croceas could be kept under PC. Read it and think about it.
"The problem with waiting for someone, or even a few people, to come in a say that they've kept a crocea under fluorescents is that anyone that has done so more than likely just got lucky with their clam pick.
We tend to think of individuals of "lower" animal groups as all being the same - but they aren't. Each individual clam is genetically distinct, and field observations back that idea up.
After all, what do you see in the wild - LOTS of them in a couple of feet of water. A good number down to several feet. Very few at say 12 feet. Only a very rare individual at 20 feet...
What I'm getting at is that if you took 100 croceas - all of them would be able to live under a 250w MH. Maybe 90 could live under 175wMH. Maybe 50 could live under a full set of T5 if placed on the rockwork. Maybe 10 could make it on the bottom with T5. And maybe 1 out of that 100 would make it on the bottom under a couple of VHOs. I made those numbers up, but you should get the idea.
So, again, if one person or even a few come out and say they've kept a crocea under fluorescents - that in no way implies that all croceas would make it under the same conditions."
"Croceas do very well under pc's if you dose enought phyto"
steven liu-
Please, by all means, give us specific examples of all the croceas you've kept for over a year under PC by dosing phyto. I'd like to get as much detail about something like that as possible. BTW - where were you when over 1,000 looked at my question/post about keeping ANY species long-term under fluorescents??? Only 7 of over 1,000 said they'd done it, and none of those were croceas.
