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Quote: Originally Posted by saxman Joe...I do love your sense of humor...LOL The maxima looks nice too! wait do you mean you also have a pic of meowzers

Quote: As for the gaping...T. crocea tends to be a very "gapy" clam as opposed to the other Tridacnids, and what I'm seeing in your clam wouldn't alarm me. Greg when we talk about gaping are we talking about the shell or the intake syphoning

Quote: Originally Posted by meowzer Beautiful...... yes but not as beautifull as your oh never mind

Just thought I would post this picture of my blue clam and my lobo for those thinking about nice looking combinations for their reef tank

I do not believe that any clam should be gaping to the point where you can look deep inside. The bottom picture is of my very healthy golden. As you can see there is a very little opening. On the top is the clam reacting to the flash from the camera the white ridge on the shell is what you want...

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Quote: Originally Posted by novahobbies While Joe is right about the toxic bad tasting slime coat.....this was the first thought that crossed my mind as well. Because with Joe's luck.....the RG who finally decides to make permanent residence would have to be a tank-terror. Hope the Mandarin...

The November December issue of coral mag has a great section on giant clams well worth reading

Ok this is my method and it works. First post a pic of your tank. Now this is what I did to remove my jewel damsel out of my 110g I divide my tank in to fourths in my mind at one forth from the right I moved my LR so I had a clear shot of pushing a piece of acrylic I had cut a little smaller...

I would add more live rock or non-live for that matter you want to establish algae growth on the rocks. Tangs are constant grazers

If you have aiptasia in your tank it’s really the ones you don’t see that are the problem. The ones you do see can be taken care of fairly easily as mentioned above. Of those methods I would definitely go with some peppermint shrimp to deal with the unseen ones

Quote: AHHHHH...didn't realize you had one Oh you know i have one

Quote: Originally Posted by meowzer YIKES......probably the RG I remember them being MEAN...... Lois I am leaning toward the mandarin getting to close to the pistol shrimp. I don’t believe it was the RG or any other fish for that matter because I believe as do many others that the slime coat...

Quote: Originally Posted by mzlambert I do like that fish. But for this tank we are going to stick to small fish like 5" and less. I will definitely consider it for my 55 imo that damsal will not grow to 5 inches

So it seems like something took a chunk out of my mandarins’ gill(white spot in center of pic) she does not seem to be in any distress and there does not seem to be any infection, so I will keep her in the DT and monitor her.

Thanks all for the encouragement, funny is seems that over the last few days the RG has grown a pair. It is out and about more than it has ever been I am wondering if the addition of the mandarin has anything to do with it

Jewel damsel Microspathodon chrysurus

OK henry I did not want to jinx myself but I must be truthful, I also have a RG (I know , I know) I have had this fish for about 6 weeks as you can see he is not that fond of having his picture taken

Quote: Originally Posted by spanko I have been great thank you for asking. yes in my reading the Europeans (especially the Germans) love their gadgets and widgets!!!! Long live the euro

Just for the hell of it this is a picture of a damsel I had and IMO one of the more beautiful looking ones available. As far as getting one or more out of your tank, I do not believe it will be too much of a problem in a 20g if you use my method of divide and remove