Giant Clam seeds?

[Littlesquishy]

Out of Curiosity, has anyone ever tried growing giant clams from babies?

 

[Doctorgori]

I’d call those 1” $100 croceas babies, :(
anyway, yeah do aquaculture them, just not possible yet at the hobby level

 

[SlugSnorter]

nearly nobody with a hobbist tank can. the setup is too specialized and expensive.

 

[Miami Reef]

VERY difficult, especially if you decide on maxima/crocea.

 

[ISpeakForTheSeas]

“Acro Al” Allan Van Zijl in Perth, Australia did, but from what I recall, he was only able to do so effectively without taking up too much space because he lived in close proximity to the ocean (from what I remember, I could be off on this). Like the others have said, though, it definitely isn’t an easy task.

 

[DaJMasta]

From reading a paper on how a commercial hatchery does it, it's not by any means impossible, but it is probably tricky. Lots of space and high light so the larvae can settle, then a way to get zooxanthellae into the babies - but the method described is to blenderize an adult and inoculate the water with it... so there's considerable investment.

The basics are that it takes a while to get spawning age clams, then getting their larva to survive is not so bad without pumps, but the initial settling requires some phytoplankton, a source of zooxanthellae for their mantles, and a lot of light (typically shallow waters in partly shaded full tropical sun). I think it's not overly challenging to do, but it may be very difficult to make a small scale experiment work out well.

 

[monkeyCmonkeyDo]

You would need 3 separate run ways or long trout style tanks.
For the different ages of the clams....
Prob a good supply of live foods or fine foods.
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[monkeyCmonkeyDo]

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