Actually yes, if you have good lighting. I have 250w mh, 20" depth, Reeflux 12000, and I have good expansion on corals and crocea clam. The life requirements are similar, and, like corals, clams don't often move around.
Another merit to the croceas: they give you a broad expanse of outrageous jewel blue that is hard to find in corals. So if you want to create a tank with color variety, they're great.
Don't put them next to stinging corals. Mine snuggles happily with fox coral, for instance, a great combo: fox is a beautiful pink/green coral that does not sting. Gsp, ok, but it will grow up on the clam's shell.
Clams don't eat big things: they don't like fish food, for instance, and mostly suck up phyto plankton and very tiny stuff. What makes corals happy in that department often delights a clam.
Are they a hazard to fish? Clowns can get away with murder with clams, diving in and out---you wonder. But they do seem ok. I've seen my mandy graze it and get no reaction.
Nippy fish are apt to get caught, and if this happens that fish is pretty well toast. Your only hope is to invert the clam and hope it turns loose, but it probably won't. Besides, clams burrow into stonework and/or tie themselves down with curious strong threads (byssal threads) that don't let you invert the clam. So yep, nosy copperbands are toast. My own fish list has been perfectly safe.
And don't blame the clam: closing is as automatic with them as your blinking when somebody pokes at your eye.
Read up on their physiology. They're a very Star Trek animal: very, very strange.
But worth considering as a tankmate...if you're in it for the long haul. Clams live for hundreds of years. Don't get one unless you're (a) sure you're ready and (b) don't mind a committment.
Another merit to the croceas: they give you a broad expanse of outrageous jewel blue that is hard to find in corals. So if you want to create a tank with color variety, they're great.
Don't put them next to stinging corals. Mine snuggles happily with fox coral, for instance, a great combo: fox is a beautiful pink/green coral that does not sting. Gsp, ok, but it will grow up on the clam's shell.
Clams don't eat big things: they don't like fish food, for instance, and mostly suck up phyto plankton and very tiny stuff. What makes corals happy in that department often delights a clam.
Are they a hazard to fish? Clowns can get away with murder with clams, diving in and out---you wonder. But they do seem ok. I've seen my mandy graze it and get no reaction.
Nippy fish are apt to get caught, and if this happens that fish is pretty well toast. Your only hope is to invert the clam and hope it turns loose, but it probably won't. Besides, clams burrow into stonework and/or tie themselves down with curious strong threads (byssal threads) that don't let you invert the clam. So yep, nosy copperbands are toast. My own fish list has been perfectly safe.
And don't blame the clam: closing is as automatic with them as your blinking when somebody pokes at your eye.
Read up on their physiology. They're a very Star Trek animal: very, very strange.
But worth considering as a tankmate...if you're in it for the long haul. Clams live for hundreds of years. Don't get one unless you're (a) sure you're ready and (b) don't mind a committment.
I love this hobby. And after 40 years, I'm still learning, too.
