New Clam - Colors?

[rleechb]

Alright, I decided to give my first clam a go. I picked up this maxima from jeff's exotic in gardena yesterday. nice sky blue dood. Anyways, the clam looks purple through the acrylic, and sky blue through the water... what gives? I have this same problem with some purple shrooms. The shrooms are very blue from above, but look plain ol' purple through the acrylic. grr!! I'm only running a single 175w pendant (5500K a;skjdg right now. In a week or so, it'll be 2 x 250 hqi (coralvue 20k). Anyways, any ideas? btw, what ya'll think of the clam?

Pic 1: http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-5/211001/DCP_0979.JPG

Pic 2: http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-5/211001/DCP_0977.JPG

Pic 3: http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-5/211001/DCP_0986.JPG

hard to get it to show well, my camera sucks, heh.

 

[acroporas]

Re: New Clam - Colors?

Anyways, the clam looks purple through the acrylic, and sky blue through the water... what gives?

It has to do with the way clams reflects light. It doesnt have anything to do with looking through the acrylic, it is that you are looking from the side vs above. No matter what you do, if you look at your clam perpendicular to the light it will look different than when you look parallel to the light. Solution....Clam Tank It is designed so that you can view your clams from above.

 

[acroporas]

Ohh, and the clam looks great. I also like the potters angel in Pic 3.