Images of clams in their natural environment - anyone have?

[James Yeung]

Hello all,

I searched RC's galleries and only found one picture of a clam in their natural environment.

I read that Croceas and Maximas grow in large colonies. Would love to see pics of those!

Thanks,

James

 

[Jimmy719]

I just got Daniel Knop's book on Giant Clams, and holy smokes is it awesome. It has plenty of those type pictures, and also seems to be pretty comprehensive as far as the text goes. You might also try searching on google or google images... "giant clam colony" "crocea or maxima colony"

Good luck

Jimmy

 

[James Yeung]

Thanks for the info.

I tried searching on google for this many times. I finally gave up (I got too many returns on tank clams).

All I know is that these clams can grow in huge colonies and would really love to see them in nature instead of in tanks for a change.

James

 

[firechild]

I spent some time on Orpheus Island in 2002 and 2003 and that place has some of the largest densities of Tridacnids in the world. Part of it is due to the massive aquaculturing they have done over the last 10-15 years but also the huge natural populations found there. Some of the natural outcrops consisted of rocks around 10' round covered in dozens, in some cases hundreds of smallish croceas. Maximas there are rare but there are thousands of croceas, squamosas, derasas, gigas and H. hippoppus. There were a few of the large gigas broodstock that we came across that were over 2m long and had small reefs growing on their sides with small clams and large table Acroporas.
Unfotrunately I only took a couple of rolls of fiolm there and very few of the photos turned out, none of which were of clams. :mad2:

 

[Sloth]

Take a look in the Komodo dive pics thread in the SPS forum.

 

[lebowski]

56k Beware.. Here are some pics for you all.

 

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[lebowski]

Notice how the lower light clams like Gigas are mostly on the sandbed, deeper in the water.. Maxima and Crocea look like they just sprout from corals, inbetween them ( mostly SPS ).. They are overgrown with corals and such.. So here's the type of light, clams get in the wild.

 

[James Yeung]

Wow, nice collection of pics! Thanks for sharing!!

James

 

[Project Reef]

Here you go James, there are a bunch of nice wild clam pictures on this thread here:
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=306152&perpage=25&pagenumber=3

 

[Mickster]

Thanks for sharing those pics!!! I'm speechless. Those are some big clams!

 

[Snail Guy]

Thought I'd share this habitat shot. Looking top-down on the reef, was taken while diving in Fiji.

.. Maxima and Crocea look like they just sprout from corals, inbetween them ( mostly SPS ).. They are overgrown with corals and such.. So here's the type of light, clams get in the wild.

Assuming this illustrates your point? Though I never have placed an exact ID on which Tridacna species it is.

Cheers,
Bob

 

[Rothie]

It looks like a georgeous T. Maxima.