gold Maxima had a baby

fish&corals · Jul 4, 2011

my gold maxima clam has a baby clam now .. i guess when i tried to breed her it worked .. i have had her since she was about 2" she is about 6 or 7 inches now . does anyone know how many they will have ? i will take a pic of it when i can borrow my buddies water cam again this week and post pix ..

i did read about how to breed them just didnt really think it worked out ..

Reef UP · Jul 4, 2011

Could you please share your experiences on how you did it and so on?

Joe Knows Reefs · Jul 4, 2011

Reef UP said:
Could you please share your experiences on how you did it and so on?

Ditto! I wanna learn more!

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Triggerman77 · Jul 4, 2011

Sweet !!

Sandman_71 · Jul 4, 2011

This should be interesting

skinz78 · Jul 4, 2011

I'd love to see some pic's, I haven't ever heard of this happening before in home aquaria.

iReefer · Jul 4, 2011

that sounds freaken cool. tagging along

the_fish_man · Jul 4, 2011

iReefer said:
that sounds freaken cool. tagging along

+1!!!!

fish&corals · Jul 5, 2011

hey everyone heres a idea of how it happen i will try to answer all and everyone's questions as they come in and will do updates all the time .. i borrowed a book out of our club library here in bervard county called space coast reef club .. it was a book on clams by daniel knop .. it was pretty much a guild to id them and care for them in a closed system .. as i read through the book it said that it can be done with another clam so i researched it more on the internet to find out more info on it and when i did , i went to a LFS here and picked up another clam from them it was smaller then what i had ... as i read they said for you to breed a clam they had to be with-in 5" or less but be careful they can fight .. so i did that was just like a science project to me .. but the clam i got died about 3 months later .. come to find out with a lil more reading if they do breed the other clam will die off cause something to do with the breeder clam is feeding the clam that will host the babies .. but no where in the book or on the net does it say how many they will have .. but its been about 8 months since the other clam passed .. but i will post pix of them for sure .. i still cant tell the color of it yet cause its still small .. but whats really cool is it is footed to her shell ...

Reef lvr · Jul 5, 2011

Pics or it didn't happen!!

miyags · Jul 5, 2011

I think you just have a hitch hiker, I just got in 2 maxima clams from pacific east aquaculture, One clam came in with a small clam on it's shell. and I doubt that it's even a maxima. Clams in the wild release millions of eggs and sperm.

skinz78 · Jul 5, 2011

miyags said:
I think you just have a hitch hiker, I just got in 2 maxima clams from pacific east aquaculture, One clam came in with a small clam on it's shell. and I doubt that it's even a maxima. Clams in the wild release millions of eggs and sperm.

Cool can I see pic's of this one too?

KLR · Jul 5, 2011

Sweet! If you actually bred them,you could be onto something very positive for the hobby! So we dont have to harvest as many from the ocean..

I would also like to see a picture

skinz78 · Jul 5, 2011

Bump for pic's!!!

fish&corals · Jul 5, 2011

ok here are some pix .. i will get my friends water cam this weekend and take some better shots ... sorry they are kind of whacked out taken with my droid .. it is under a 1/2 " right now . i tried to get 2 different angles on it