Here's my three amigos

Two crocesa and a derasa ...



From the front .....
[IMG]http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/564/47770Clams_from_front_Jan_05.jpg [/IMG]


From the top .....
[IMG]http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/564/47770Clams_Jan_05.jpg [/IMG]

The derasa is relatively new and will not tolerate any picture taking or shadows

I'll have pics of my two new ones friday...both maximas,ones a teardrop(bronze/gold) the other is black and blue both 3in.

my teardrops
 

Here are my solomon teardrops. [IMG]http://images.snapfish.com/342%3A494%3B23232%7Ffp64%3Dot%3E2323%3D824%3D%3B7%3A%3D3232824%3A895%3A3nu0mrj[/IMG]

Those are sweet HOZERTHEBONEFISH.:)

Very nice Teardrops........HOZERTHEBONEFISH

Nice looking tear drops I love the ones with some color....nice find they are kinda hard to come acrost other than the standard gold teardrops....

My First Clam!
 

He's about 2.5". Got him under 2x96w PC in my 46 gallon bow. I know, I know "not enough light!" Well, he's been in there a couple of weeks and seems to be real happy. Mantle is expanded and reflexes are very quick. Feed him DT's every other day. He sits at the uppermost part of my aquascape, about 6 inches from water surface, about 10 inches from light source. Getting my halides in about a week so may have to move him down a bit so he doesn't burn.

This one taken with both daylights and actinics on, no flash.
[IMG]http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/500/60613T__Crocea_2.jpg[/IMG]

This one taken with only actinics on, with flash.
[IMG]http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/500/60613T__Crocea__Top_.jpg[/IMG]

forgot to mention, he's a T. Crocea

Sweet clam, good pick up for your first clam......gizmo7718

[IMG]http://islandreefs.com/images/SPS_clam/bw_maxima.jpg[/IMG]

blue T. maxima from above[IMG]http://www.angelfire.com/alt2/acropora1981/clamdec9.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]http://rivalpc.com/Portals/0/TTTGallery/reeftankweb/reeftank/rtank%20028.jpg[/IMG]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Gary Majchrzak [/i]
[B]DeepBlue- are you sure it's not a squamosa?;) [/B][/QUOTE]

i second this. might be a maximosa if not a full-blooded squammy.

The thing that threw me off is the large scutes (scales) on DeepBlue's clam shell- it makes the clam appear squamosa-like.
Maximas sometimes retain more pronounced scutes- especially in captive raised specimens.
Interbreeding might be a possibility, too.

Rivalpc
Sweet clam....does that have color spots on it like it looks in the pic.....really cool

My new Maximas
 

I got these Thursday from Reefer Madness.....

[IMG]http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/500/27845club_maxima.jpg [/IMG]

[IMG]http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/500/27845Blueandblack_max1.jpg [/IMG]

[IMG]http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/500/27845gold_teardropmaxima1.jpg[/IMG]

Gary
I've been to south China and found that the Maximas there have very large scutes, some of them look very similar to Squamosas.

Been into Clams for the last years and been diving after clams in many locations in the world.

I think that in some places some species of clams have special characteristics that we can find only at that place, it might be that in some places, those clams are also hybrids.


For example if you look at page 123 in the Julian Sprung book Invertebrates A quick reference guide, you'll see what refered there as T.squamosa ? T.rosewateri ? this clam is quite common in the Red Sea and considered T. squamosa there.
I never seen a T.squamosa like this anywhere else in the world .


Another example, alot of Maxima clams from China has no elongate shell at all, they have the "rounded" symetric shell of the Squamosa, but the ribs are not symetric as the Squamosa is.
And have a small, but still larger byssal opening than the "regular" Suqamie.
Hybrid? maybe.

Thanks for chiming in, Vili. :)

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Azurel [/i]
[B]Rivalpc
Sweet clam....does that have color spots on it like it looks in the pic.....really cool [/B][/QUOTE]
I'll try to get a better pic for ya.

Really awesome clams!!!!!:) Here's one of mine.

[IMG]http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/500/44525clam.JPG [/IMG]

Here's a pix of one of my Pohnpei's.

[IMG]http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/500/44525000_0983crop2.jpg [/IMG]

Awsome clams Acroconut. How big is that Teardrop?

Thanks Azurel. The teardrop is 7 1/2". It was 7" in June of 2004 (when I got it), so it has been growing at a decent rate.

That Pohnpei is really sweet to.....It has a really unique color pattern

Here are a couple of new clams I got.

[IMG]http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/500/50121squammy.jpg [/IMG]

The one on the right is new.
[IMG]http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/500/50121new_clam.jpg [/IMG]