New Crocea Clam - Pic!

jpc763

jpc763

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I picked this guy up this week. I am trying to get him to attach to a shell under the sand. Everytime I put him in the rocks, he knocks himself off. He seems quite content on the sand bed, but with T5 lighting, I want to get him higher.
Anyway, except for the placement, how does he look?
 
paintballer768

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Clam looks very healthy. No bleaching, pinched mantle disease, nips, or anything I can see. Mine too likes the sandbed best.
As far as lighting, I have it under metal halides so I dont quite know about T5s.
 
jpc763

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Thanks for the compliments. It is a very cool clam!
The tank is a 55g. I have 4x54w T5. Ideally I would like the clam in the top half of the tank, but he has different ideas
 
tinmanny

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I have a clam and it looks identical to yours he also will not attach t the rock he loves the sand and is to pun the quote "is happy as a clam" had him sence Christmas and I moved hin to the opposet side of my tank and he is still in the sand if hr attaches to a rock it is very hard to get him of for any reason
Good luck he is a gorgious clam and fun to watch when fish are around him
 
nycbob

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nice clam! is it a maxima? bc it doesnt look like a crocea. the mantle isnt as out and not very symmetrical.
 
jpc763

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Originally Posted by nycbob
http:///forum/post/2475616
nice clam! is it a maxima? bc it doesnt look like a crocea. the mantle isnt as out and not very symmetrical.
I am no clam expert. At the LFS they had about 20 clams of both Crocea and Maxima. The Maxima clams looked different with more stripes. So their mantle looked different. The Crocea all looked pretty much like mine with a solid color and spots.
The Maxima's were also about 2x as much.
 
bonebrake

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It is a T. crocea, some T. maxima are blue, but T. crocea have smooth shells and T. maxima have scutes on the outside of the shells.
 
jpc763

jpc763

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Originally Posted by Bonebrake
http:///forum/post/2476058
It is a T. crocea, some T. maxima are blue, but T. crocea have smooth shells and T. maxima have scutes on the outside of the shells.
I don't understand. The shell is not smooth, it has ridges. Look at this pic you can kinda see them...
 
anonome

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That is indeed a crocea. I would try to attach it to a rock up in the rockwork. I did mine on a piece of lace rock, and then cornered it by other rocks until it attached. It can take up to a week for the clam to attach firmly enough that a fish, or water current don't blow it down, or itself for that matter. Try to corner it somehow. You may have to reposition rocks to make this happen. It will not be happy in the long run in the sand bed.
 
jpc763

jpc763

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Originally Posted by Anonome
http:///forum/post/2476605
That is indeed a crocea. I would try to attach it to a rock up in the rockwork. I did mine on a piece of lace rock, and then cornered it by other rocks until it attached. It can take up to a week for the clam to attach firmly enough that a fish, or water current don't blow it down, or itself for that matter. Try to corner it somehow. You may have to reposition rocks to make this happen. It will not be happy in the long run in the sand bed.
Thanks, I am trying to do that right now. Someone suggested using a oyster shell so I did that. It is under the clam in the sand. Hopefully the clam will attach to the oyster shell and I can move that up. I do want it up in the rocks, I just need it to attach
 
paintballer768

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So your saying if the shell has ridges, its a maxima? My clam does and it was sold to me as a crocea. Positive ID? This is it spooked to get a good shot of the shell.
 
jpc763

jpc763

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Originally Posted by paintballer768
http:///forum/post/2477154
So your saying if the shell has ridges, its a maxima? My clam does and it was sold to me as a crocea. Positive ID? This is it spooked to get a good shot of the shell.
In a post above my clam, which looks exactly like yours, was confirmed as Crocea.
 
str8salt

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The scutes on the maxima are much larger than the ridges on the crocea. They stick off of the main shell almost like shelves. That is definatly a crocea. I will try to take some pics of my maxima if anyone is interested.
 
natclanwy

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Originally Posted by jpc763
http:///forum/post/2476918
Thanks, I am trying to do that right now. Someone suggested using a oyster shell so I did that. It is under the clam in the sand. Hopefully the clam will attach to the oyster shell and I can move that up. I do want it up in the rocks, I just need it to attach

Even if you get it to attach to the the shell it may decide to detach after you move it. I have irritated my clam badly over that last month or so. It was content on an oyster shell at the end of my tank for about a year but it was shaded and the mantle was has been slowly starting get more brown so I decided to move it under the lights and it jumped off the rock about a half a dozen times before it stayed put. Then I had move all my rock to rescue a carpet anenome and tried to put the rock back exactly where it was but apparently wasn't good enough since the clam detached again
. I have gone through this routine about 3 times in the last month hopefully as of tonight it is attached and I just epoxied all of my rock together so no more moving
.
 
jpc763

jpc763

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So I found a spot in the rock work where it can sit without bouncing around.
How long until it attaches?
Thanks, John
 
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