Farming giant clams

[skinz78]

I just found a few vids on Youtube that are really good and tell how clams are farmed. Check em out!
[video=youtube;bLQHqamR-UA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLQHqamR-UA&feature=related[/video]

 

[skinz78]

[video=youtube;eeHIRKqg_S8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeHIRKqg_S8&feature=related[/video]

 

[revhtree]

Dude cool videos!

 

[nixer]

thats some sweet info there

 

[Ian]

Awesome man, nice find. If I wasn't so tired I'd watch them both right now :sad:

It'll have to wait until tomorrow.....

 

[Speg]

Is it just me..or were those clams shipped without water? I've never ordered clams before...is that how they're shipped?

 

[fote03]

Cool videos!

 

[corals2go]

makes you wonder what has changed if any in the past 20 years

 

[clowns101]

I had seen those videos before,they make it look so easy dont they?

 

[skinz78]

Yeah I noticed that there was no water too, made me wonder what the DOA rate was. Every clam I have gotten has came in water unless the bag got damaged.

 

[nixer]

makes you wonder what has changed if any in the past 20 years

the prices!

 

[Elan]

awesome video!

 

[Servo]

OMG!!! THe thing that impresses me about this is comparing what they did to the ocean off of the break. Obviously, they cleared out a path to cultivate some of the clams, but look what it looked like a couple years ago! Crazy!

They aren't using the ocean adjacent to the facitity as a grow out nursery anymore. My friend went to buy some clams from one of the farmers, and he took him to his land where they took a small row boat out to pick out some of the clams.

 

[skinz78]

Cool video, do you have more vids or pic's of the farm?

 

[Servo]

I do, I'll post them later. I thought I had more than I did, overall, they really aren't to impressive (concrete troughs), but being there is!

 

[skinz78]

LOL all clam pic's are impressive!

 

[vnreef]

I need to clean my clam same the way they did?

 

[skinz78]

I need to clean my clam same the way they did?

If you are talking about how they are scrubbing the clam in vid #2 at about 4:40 in, I generally take a toothbrush and gently scrub all new clams before I add them to my DT.

 

[vnreef]

Yes, from now on will to do that.

 

[stedfast82]

wow thank you very nice !!!!