My new teardrops

[James Yeung]

Nice clam!

I haven't seen a tear drop in Toronto LFS yet. Not even at my local wholesaler (which I'm fortunate enough to have access to).

clamsdirect.com does not ship to Canada. Anyone know some excellent places that'll ship to Canada, better yet, online clam vendors in Canada? I'm starting to get obessed with clams. I want some really unique and beautiful ones.

The current ones I have are 9 nice looking Croceas and 1 ordinary Squamosa. I need a few out of the ordinary, in your face type clams!

BTW, the big one's (5.5") blue stripes and dots turns neon green when viewed from the top.

Thanks,

James

 

[hwynboy]

James great you are bit by the bug too....I have read some of your posts the only thing I would caution you about is are you testing your calcium levels? With that many clams they really compete for calcium and if your levels are not optimum they will not do well. I have a great cal reactor and I dose some liquid calc from time to time to buffer it up a bit and Im always fine tuning my reactor. Good Luck. I would get that reactor sooner than later.

 

[gracie]

Great pictures. Wounderful clams!
Excuse ingorance but I have never done a F/W dip on clams.
Would you tell me how?
Thanks

 

[hwynboy]

thanks for the compliments Gracie, James and Lunchbucket.....

A FW dip on a clam is stressful and should be done with caution, but basically match the temp and ph to the tanks params and use RO/DI water and in they go head first. I dipped my clam for about 15 minutes then set them back into the main tank. The clam looked badly for about a day then fully recovered.

 

[gracie]

Thanks for the info. I have been at this for a long time but have not kept many clams.

 

[James Yeung]

hwynboy: I have been testing calcium levels everyday for the last 4 days. So far, it is steady at ~450ppm. Ever since I upgraded my sump thus increasing water capacity by 60G (now I have ~200G), alk still drops, but not as fast. I keep alk between 3 - 3.5 meg/L.

I'm also dripping kalk but no calcium reactor yet.

James