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08/22/2002, 11:51 PM
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Got clams?
Just bought a small Dersa at the LFS for about 30 bucks. Seems to be doing OK. How often should I feed it and what? I feed my Bubble and Fungia pieces of Snapper twice a week. Will the Dersa eat this too? He's about 3" right now. He's on the substrate under 440 watts of VHO. Also in moderate current.
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08/23/2002, 12:08 AM
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At 3" he should be safe just filtering nitrates and particles out of the water, but I would suggest dosing DT's every other day. It will only make everything in you're tank more happy. just my $.02.
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#3
08/23/2002, 12:10 AM
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How about Marine Snow and Black Powder? That's all I have for now.
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08/23/2002, 12:25 AM
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If you do some searches on clams you will find a wealth of info on their care requirements.
For smaller clams feeding plankton is said to be nessecary to do. For larger clams light provides them with most of their food/energy. Anyway I will try to attach a pic of my ~ 8 inch dersa I recently aquired from a fellow reefer. |
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#6
08/23/2002, 12:29 AM
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I see you have yours attached to a piece of live rock..how did you manage that? I tried to get mine to sit on a piece of l/r but he wouldn't stay.
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#7
08/23/2002, 12:57 AM
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I don't know actually. Most of the reasearch I have read says that it takes considerable time or at least some time I guess for it too attach.
I actually have three clams in my tank. I have two small Maxximas that I recieved a few weeks ago and they attached themselves in a few days with their threads. This large dersa I got a few days ago and I was looking today and it has put out some threads to the rock it is sitting on in the pic. It has been on a sand bed up untill now. So I don't really have an answer to your question except I made sure they were in a stable spot and hopefully didn't fall off. |
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08/23/2002, 11:16 AM
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Thanks Toptank,
Well I for sure have the clam addiction now! Awsome creatures. |
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#11
08/23/2002, 12:06 PM
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nice looking clams!!!
can you post more pics please!!! 
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