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I once had 34 clams in a 120g setup, they did great but it was a pain to keep up on all the cal and alk takeup.
when i was doing my clam breeding experiments i had 60 clams in a 200g raceway. Again the issue is keeping up with calcium, alk, mg, etc. Also with that many I had a school of 15 chromis in there to provide nutrients to the tank. Most clams take up a lot of calcium for lateral shell growth until they hit about 4" then slow down and start working on shell thickness.
There is always a problem of a clam stripping out the nutrients it needs in a reef tank pretty fast (especially a system setup for SPS). Clams can go through nitrate, phosphate very fast in a system that is too clean. So you will need to add that back into the water to help maintain clam health if your looking at having a lot of clams in a system. On the upside you dont have to worry about running a phosphate remover, or nitrate reducer!
I read this as well. From what I have read it is not ideal to "feed" clams as the particle size they need is quite small, and that fish poop is great stuff! :squigglemouth:Fish poop is a good thing for clams. I dont know the gallonage that Dr Mac has at Pacific east but they regularly have 1000 pieces in stock.
Do you have any pictures? was it setup just for clams, or was it part of a reef?
Awesome pics skinz!!! I have had 3 and all 3 died. I am giving those up til I get a better established tank. Great thread btw!!!