What kind of clam is this?

[reefredy75]

 

[capefear]

it's a nice clam thats what kind of clam that is, could you get a better pic like turn it to its side so we can see its shell. would be more easy to tell.

 

[mbbuna]

looks like a crocea to me. what lighting is it under?

 

[Whisperer]

The scutes are like that of a maxi or a squamosa but the mantle with those warts look like that of a crocea. Hmmm, a hybrid? but I'll go with a crocea also.

 

[mbbuna]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8585560#post8585560 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Whisperer
The scutes are like that of a maxi or a squamosa but the mantle with those warts look like that of a crocea. Hmmm, a hybrid? but I'll go with a crocea also.

croceas do grow scutes, they are just very thin and easily broken off. also almost all (all) the croceas for sale here are wild collected and are dug out of the rocks. so for the first part of there life there scutes are worn down to a smooth shell from touching the rocks they are bored into, then when we get them here and they grow in our tanks we see the new scutes

 

[OrionN]

It is a Crocea. I agree with mbbuna regarding the scutes. I have had crocea full of scutes growing in my tank.

 

[a4twenty]

cool i've never seen that color. can you get a top down shot for me please?

oh yeah, if it wasn't a crocea and it had an incurrent siphon like that i'd be worrying about gaping

 

[reefredy75]

Its' under 175w 14k

 

[mbbuna]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8588283#post8588283 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by reefredy75
Its' under 175w 14k

you may want to SLOWLY move it up higher. Croceas can have a brown color like yours but i see some bright blue in the mantle. if you've had the clam for some time and it has always had that coloration then it may be fine, but one trate of a clam not getting enough light is to drop its bright colors and allow its zoox to grow to a larger population (turn brown). if you do decide to move it closer to the light just do it very slowly