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Ok once my giant Maxima clam was acclimated a bit I've been slowly moving him off the sand bed and further up towards the light.
I don't like the position he's in right now aesthetically but HE SURE DOES!!!

He's now up above the large tangs that kept throwing sand on him and making him open/close a thousand times a day.

He's just about two inches below the surface with a 6 bulb T5 7" above that.

So the clam is really loving all his new light and the food that comes from it.

I really like this guy and have been waiting to get one for a long time.

 

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Ok sheer panic hit me this morning when while feeding my huge hippo tang,

he got too excited and slammed into my main rock archway. Causing it to start a domino collapse sequence as I scrambled to grab coral frags and soften blows from falling rock.

Two hours later, me and my wife finally reconstructed the scape and modified it making it a little better than before.

This is the final result.

It is SUPER expoxied in place now with a full tube instead of just in a few places like before.

I think the worst part, besides the stress of it all, was the clown pair repeatedly ripping into my arm defending their Nem. My arm is tore up.

 

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New vid from this morning
http://youtu.be/ETzuiKhBP34

 

[revhtree]

Looks good!

 

[Jimbo662]

Wow...beautiful clam!

 

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Thanks. It's huge and was the pic of the litter

 

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New toys!

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Soo happy about this!

And this just came

My acan order!

 

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Acans in the tank!

 

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New digi and green sticks added yesterday.
Dosing pump still getting dialed in and kicking butt. Never seen soo much growth from my clam before!

All sps are growing like crazy!
Never realized how much I was under dosing the tank until now.

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Still fighting the Dino algae. I think I'm starting to get the upper hand.

 

[skinz78]

Great looking reef!

 

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[vlangel]

Beautiful clam and gorgeous tank!

 

[Reefinny]

Awesome job!

 

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Pic of my new clam growth.
All the bright white has been added in the last week or so

 

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Had a frag swap locally and picked up some nice pieces.

 

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Neon green tube Zoanthid

And a new FTS
I added a new aqua blue special to the light and took out a purple plus. Lost some of the pop from the corals but I'm pretty sure I gained 50 par from it. So bright!

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[jstuver]

Beautiful tank! Love the clam , I have a large beautiful one as well that ii am trying to decide where I want it in my scape.

 

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Thanks
That's not really where I want my clam aesthetically, but it is very practical for the clam.

It's up as close as possible to the light for maximum food creation and so the dumb tangs don't run into it or over it all day long making it close 1,000 times.

The down side is I can't see directly at the top of it where all the color is.

But for right now it's really happy and growing like crazy so it will stay. :)

New growth pic
This was on the 7th

And this is yesterday

Really happy about this

 

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Some blues pics this morning

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Pics from today

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