My new Gigas

[OrionN]

I have been looking for a Gigas for a long time. Just recently got this Gigas from a friend who is trying to convert his Reef tank to low light FOWLR. He is about 14 inches. Somewhat smaller than my last Gigas when he died in a tank crash some years ago. Here is a picture of him taken with my cell phone

 

[AquaTDV]

Nice score Minh!! Good luck

 

[superchargeme]

Nice score for sure! I've been looking for awhile also. Give it your best!!

 

[biodegraded]

I think you are the most diligent searcher I know. lol. Nice score on a rare animal.

 

[trueblackpercula]

very nice i have been looking for a long time now myself...............good luck and congrats

 

[wjgeese]

a beauty! Any pics of that derasa in the bottom?

 

[OrionN]

I am building my system and fish room. These animals are just in holding tank right now. There is a full house in that tank, all 5 species of Tridacna clams

 

[CIGARSC351W]

Congrats, it's a beautiful animal!

 

[Overboard]

Nice! Hard to find these days.

 

[Winwood]

Just when I just get exhausted of you scooping up all the desired anemones available, you open up a whole new can of worms! LOL!

 

[OrionN]

Thanks everybody. It was just plain luck on my part for knowing the right person and contact him at the right time.

 

[ZephNYC]

impossible find these days! congrats and good luck. Ive had mine for 8 years now.

 

[reefs4lifee]

Lucky! I've been looking for one as well ever since mine passed when I was a nooby in the hobby just that back then they were much easier to come across. I would really love to complete my collection but who knows when that will happen.

Anyways, good luck to you with that beauty!

 

[SNAKEMANVET]

awesome clam minh.

 

[OrionN]

Thanks. I am happy and lucky to get him.

 

[ca1ore]

Indeed. Sold my green/yellow Gigas 5 years ago when temporarily giving up on reef tanks - absolute beauty.

 

[Rotknee]

That is a very nice Gigas Minh. I have an opportunity to get one but I am a little cautious because I am not sure how well it will survive overnight shipping. I've heard they don't ship well. What do you know about shipping these guys?

 

[OrionN]

I think the larger the harder to ship. If it is anywhere near 12 inches, the shipper really got to know what he is doing. It is not that they are delicate, but it is hard to ship a living thing that heavy and big. Many thing can go wrong. Just the shell can cut open a bag for one.

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

how do you supplement calcium and alkalinity, Minh?

 

[OrionN]

I just hook up a Ca reactor last night. I added a lot of the two parts additive and Mg from BRS up until now. I think I will continue to add the additive. Once I set up my system, I will add kalk also with a dosing pump at a fix rate. My last tank crash involved Kalk as top-off. From experiences it is hard to keep up with a large clams in a system. I got large Derasa and Squamosa in addition to this Gigas