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I think you would be surprised. They filter a lot of water and even your 5 drops of phyto plus whatever else is floating in the water column is probably enough to keep them going until they can derive all their needs from photosynthesis. I never spot fed my clam even when he/she was only an inch long. 3+ inches now in just over a year.I've never fed my little clams. I prefer to buy them small (1-1/2"+) and have yet to have an unhappy clam. I do dose phyto, but I doubt anyone could call 5 drops a day in a 125 meaningful to clam health.
I notice your clam has some sand on the mantle. Is this okay? I’m guessing so yours looks amazing. Squamosa?I don't feed my clam food, but if you want to do this you need to add phytoplankton to your tank.
I have a pistol shrimp and squamosa. The pistol makes sand storms also getting sand on my clams mantle. I always thought you had to blow it off with a siphon. Guess not!My tank have high flow in a lot of the area. With variable flow there are sometime sandstorms going on in my tank. The flow pick up the sand and spread it everywhere sometime results in sand deposits on the coral, clams and anemones.
They just move them off their surface given a little time. I tried to provide natural condition for my tank and if this cause it to not looking optimal at times, it is OK with me. I don’t have a crystal clear tank. Sometime you see sand storms in some of my pictures.