Light acclimation?

[sh0tyme83]

Well I decided to get myself a valentine's day gift to me. I bought myself my first crocea clam and my first clam in general. How do you guys light acclimate your clam? I have mine in the sand bed to get used to my MH light and he seems to be throwing a fit, flipping himself on his side. He was perfectly fine today with the light on but now that it is off and my PCs are on he is doing this.

He came from a 4 X 175watt 60 gallon cube system with 10K bulbs and he is now in my 150 watt 10K bulb 37 gallon cube system.

 

[skinz78]

You can shade it with a few layers of window screen. Slowly remove them over the next few days to a week. How did you acclimate it to your water

 

[a4twenty]

try half burying a rock in the sand and place the clam on that, he should attach in time then you can slowly start moving him up.

it sound like he is moving from 175W 10K MH's to 150W 10K MH's so i wouldn't do anything to acclimate him to the light, other than starting him on the bottom.

HTH

 

[sh0tyme83]

skinz - I used a drip acclimation. I do this with anything I put into my tank.

a4twenty - I was thinking the same thing. I know with my SPS corals, if they come from a more powerful system, there isn't much light acclimation needed. I didn't know if it was the same way with clams.