liveaquaria clams

NYCBOB

NYCBOB

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has anyone bought any clam from them lately? i ordered 2 clams from them last week, and 1 clam didnt make it overnight. i have kept clams for many years. i just wanna see what other experiences are with liveaquaria clams. i ordered mine from the diver den section and it was a hippo clam.
 
I pulled the trigger and bought one of the blue squamosas a few months ago when they first started making rounds. Clam came in bigger and nicer than expected. Happy camper here.
 
How's the blue squammi doing? I just received one last week and so far the clam is doing great. Just love the color on it and hope it grows fast!

 
I've ordered from them several times and clams came in dead or died shortly after. I suspect clams dont do very well with shipping... just too delicate in my opinion.
 
i ordered a large derasa from them about 2 or 3 years ago. unfortunately it died in about a week.

they refunded the cost of the animal, which was nice, but i was (an still am) bummed about losing that one.

i haven't tried to order again since. whenever possible i prefer to get my clams local so i can asses them before purchase, but i have been lusting over one of their hippopus for quite some time now. as soon as i have the room, i plan on ordering one.
 
I ordered one too and it died within the 14 day guarantee period. It never really looked good. They refunded me fast tho.
 
How is the accuracy of the color from the photograph to the actual clam? They say their clams are photographed under 20k metal halide lights but I noticed that the color of the sand is different on some of the photos.
 
Pretry close...the blue squamosa I got a few months ago was nicer and bigger than expected, so I'm a happy camper. These are true blue squamosas...the the grey mantle kind that sort of look blue under blue light...these are BLUE!!
 
I ordered two maximas from them, which both died within 14 days. I ordered a blue squamosa after that and it's still alive a couple weeks later. Hopefully it'll last now that I'm outside the 14 day guarantee...
 
I bought a hippopus clam 3 days ago and the shape it arrived in was poor. The bag had drained of nearly all of the water and the water was cold. They put one 1 small heat pack in a large box with 14 animals. With the circumstance being what it was I had no choice but to inspect for pests, brush and send him for a dunk. Also, it appeared by the looks of the box that UPS took liberties with the phrase "live animals enclosed, handle with care"... Much to my surprise though the clam has opened up nicely BUT has some significant bleaching (no gaping though!!!). I called LA and they were nice enough to extend the guarantee but I hate loosing ANY critter. Overall if I order a clam from LA again I will be sure to order a shipped from ORA clam as I live in Florida and I know they pack their animals VERY well...
 
I recently purchased a Maxima Ultra Blue from liveaquaria.com and have had it about 4 days now. so far it seems to be doing well but it looks like the pictures they had of some of the first grade and I figured since clams from them was being discussed here I would link a couple pics of it and some with more experience can tell me what it seems I have actually gotten. Regardless, the pattern is real nice but its got more dark areas than expected.

http://imgur.com/fndfaKl
http://imgur.com/kXr3amj

same picture taken from my phone during my day lights which is a blue led strip running across the back third of the tank and current satelite marine pro towards the front.
 
Add me to the list of two dead clams from them. Derasa and a Squamosa... hardly anythign difficult. They were mostly dead in the bag and did not last the night. LA were good, as always, about refund, but that does not make it OK.

I think that I am out on any of their clams and SPS until get go back to the Radiums. Some of the SPS that I got were suspect as well.
 
Funny I would read this post today -- I just received my Blue Maxima from ORA on Saturday. It is doing well so far.

When I opened the box and the foam cooler -- I remarked to my old lady that it was so COLD! She even felt it and said it was cold. Live in Miami , so its not like the thing was sent to Alaska and back.

I would venture a guess -- ORA taped the heater pack to the lid and the bag with the clam / water was about 8" in the bottom of the box. The bag never made contact to heater. I don't think the heater pack is warm enough to passively heat the entire volume of the cooler box.

Anyhow -- Real reason I was replying is -- I've spent about 400$ since Dec15 at LA and I have a royal gramma and now this clam to show for it. Sure, they have refunded my money and this or that -- But honestly 400$ and now about 19 days worth of my time, I could have gone locally spent that much money and had a ton of $h!t to show for it.

I hope this clam makes it -- If it doesn't I will never touch LA fish/inverts or coral again.
 
The heat packs quit working when all of the O is used up in the box. Then, when you open it, they start to work again.
 
Glad I have read this thread as I was getting ready to order some clams. I may wait until the weather warms up before doing so. Thanks for the great input.
 
jda said:
The heat packs quit working when all of the O is used up in the box. Then, when you open it, they start to work again.
Click to expand...

Kind of defeats the whole purpose of keeping the box warm no? Lol.

Good news -- clam still alive. Doing well.
 
They don't put them in there to help keep the box warm. If they did, the inverts would get really hot and suffer. They put them in there so that people on the other side, when the open the box, feel good about their purchase.
 
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