AquaTDV
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This was my thinking as well. Whenever I've seen people move large clams it has always been in the upright position. Also It gives me a good excuse to upgrade. :dance:
who has the biggest gigas clam?
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This was my thinking as well. Whenever I've seen people move large clams it has always been in the upright position. Also It gives me a good excuse to upgrade. :dance:
AquaTDV
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trueblackpercula
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That pic was from '07 a few months before I got the clam.
Here is a more recent pic
That's amazing thanks for making me drool
trueblackpercula
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So, I'm cleaning out the top shelf of my bedroom closet the other day and I came across a bunch of slides I took (and had taken) of a diving trip to Palau 12 years ago. One of the slides is a picture of me hovering over a MASSIVE Gigas clam. At the time I figured it was over 4 feet in length. If I can figure out how to digitize the shot I will post it here. It was by far the neatest thing I saw that entire trip (I saw tons of neat stuff too) and began a fascination with keeping clams.
Here are a couple pics of mine. I have had it since early 2007. The shell is probably about 20" end to end. It had a small area of bleaching from running too much ozone, but it is recovering nicely.
<a href="http://s255.photobucket.com/user/jrodzen/media/IMG_2462_zps9186d923.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh157/jrodzen/IMG_2462_zps9186d923.jpg" border="0" alt="gigas 6-15-13 #2 photo IMG_2462_zps9186d923.jpg"/></a>
<a href="http://s255.photobucket.com/user/jrodzen/media/IMG_2461_zps259ce1da.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh157/jrodzen/IMG_2461_zps259ce1da.jpg" border="0" alt="gigas 6-15-13 photo IMG_2461_zps259ce1da.jpg"/></a>
<a href="http://s255.photobucket.com/user/jrodzen/media/IMG_2462_zps9186d923.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh157/jrodzen/IMG_2462_zps9186d923.jpg" border="0" alt="gigas 6-15-13 #2 photo IMG_2462_zps9186d923.jpg"/></a>
<a href="http://s255.photobucket.com/user/jrodzen/media/IMG_2461_zps259ce1da.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh157/jrodzen/IMG_2461_zps259ce1da.jpg" border="0" alt="gigas 6-15-13 photo IMG_2461_zps259ce1da.jpg"/></a>
AquaTDV
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If they have truly stopped importing these, I don't see the price ever coming down on them. I would buy one if you find it, don't let the price get in the way. Remember the ones in captivity are only going to get bigger and become more scarce further driving up the price even more.
OrionN
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A true reef addicts, not having a tank and still goes to the LFS
zachfishman
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Maybe not the biggest on the thread, but nonetheless... enjoy!
<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/68819170" width="500" height="281" frameborder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe> <p><a href="http://vimeo.com/68819170">Pier Aquarium - giant clam moving</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/pieraquarium">Pier Aquarium</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>
<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/68819170" width="500" height="281" frameborder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe> <p><a href="http://vimeo.com/68819170">Pier Aquarium - giant clam moving</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/pieraquarium">Pier Aquarium</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>
zachfishman
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I was really hoping the gigas would shoot like the squamous did. Can you imagine the volume!? Goodbye ceiling tiles!
Since 1992 I have been in one of two positions: having a reef tank or thinking about having a reef tank. Sold off my tanks in a fit of pique in 2007/8 (thereabouts) following a tank crash and then spent the next 5 years with only a FW tank, thinking about (thus visiting LFS) rebuilding a reef! Addictive indeed
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