monster clam can't stop growing!

[Gary Majchrzak]

If this keeps up, it's going to outgrow my 225 gallon reef aquarium!
http://reefcentral.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=9494

 

[lebowski]

Wow, how long have you had him for? And when you got him was he that big?!

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

I got the clam two years ago. It's grown tremendously since then. The earliest pic that I have of this clam is on the front page of my website:
http://home.rochester.rr.com/garysreef
This clam has a weird anomaly on it's mantle. It appears to be a second 'false' exhalent siphon. Does anyone know anything about these things?

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

Here's a pic of the same Leopard wrasse in front of the clam now. There's a ruler at the bottom of the pic for size comparison.

 

[sahin]

Wow, awesome clam you have there.

Do you have any top down shots of the clam?

 

[Wilafur]

This clam has a weird anomaly on it's mantle. It appears to be a second 'false' exhalent siphon. Does anyone know anything about these things?

kinda like superfluous nipples? lol.

 

[Potsy]

I've read that a second, false siphon is an anomaly caused by a previous injury to the mantle that occurs close to the original siphon. I know a good plastic surgeon in Manhattan who can take care of that for you - no clam should have to go through life looking like that.

 

[SaltwaterNovice]

Gary:

You hear the saying about eating like you have two a$$holes.
Maybe that is how he got so big so fast.
Nice Clam,

brian

 

[zenya]

Gary,

Your Squamosa is spectacular even if it does have two nipples I agree that it probably resulted from the previous injury to the mantle. Should not be a concern unless you were planing to enter it in a beauty contest. :smokin:

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

Ah, you guys are too much!:lol:
Top down shots of my clam and reef are on my "honey-do" list, but NOT my wife's. I plan on taking some, as soon as I'm done fixing up a few things around the house...