Lol have to keep them corals on their toes.
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Wow that’s cool to see.
How's the lava coral doing? Wow, that sucker is tiny. Hope it does well for you!Saw this article a while back and kept my eye out.
https://reefbuilders.com/2019/06/18/fuschia-pink-lava-coals-diaseris-coming-soon-to-the-divers-den/
They went up so placed order. It’s a neat red for sure.
The wysiwyg photo.
Just came so still slime around it.
How's the lava coral doing? Wow, that sucker is tiny. Hope it does well for you!
Wow. Only two weeks and new growth.
Very nice, I miss having a clam. It’s been 20 years but my crocea’s and my deresa were pretty fast growers
Len
Might as well get another one! If you watch LA's site sometimes they have sales on ORA livestock and you can get a pretty good deal of course they are sight unseen, but some amazing clams. I flat out refuse to get any from diver's den though.
No issues with shipping or is it a little bit of a crap shoot? What clams are currently available that are hardy I wouldn’t mind a nice high grade blue maxima. I have a shallow tank that I love looking at from above and clam would fit right in.
I don't think I have ever had an issue with clams and shipping, so far at least. What they have in stock varies quite a bit, but all the common species are not too bad with derasa being the toughest. I would try and find a larger clam, around 2-3". Pacific east aquaculture is amazing too, I think they have the best clams overall and they have some really cool hybrid clams atm. Looks like there is a great selection in right now, I have found some of the prettiest colors to me in the colored or golden clams over the high blues. The maximas from ORA are smaller just FYI but I had them do well.
I personally find the starting quality of the clam is the single most important factor for them doing well in the tank.
I would be very temped by the PEA crocea or hybrid guys if you have the light for a crocea. In fact I really want a few of those off PEA site right now….
https://www.liveaquaria.com/category/3355/ora-invertebrates?c=3352+3355&r=
https://pacificeastaquaculture.com/collections/clams-2
I have decided rock anemones can be a bit of a pest, I had wanted to try and keep all the babies as some have amazing color, and there is no doubt the big adults are just gorgeous, but they really seem to enjoy creeping in coral branches and killing them. I tried to get them out of the tank, but they really put their foot deep inside rock, so I put aptasia rx on the babies, they are pretty tough and take a few treatments.
I recently decided I needed to remove the adults as well. I took the rocks out and really tried to get the bases off but some were just too deep so I fear they won’t make it. Gave to a friend so he can try and see if any of them pull though, they are pretty tough. The tank now lost a lot of color, but I have been moving acros to the back of rocks to avoid the nems, so I can move them back to the fronts, so hopefully in time replace the color but the reds, oranges and pinks of rock nems are really unique.
Some livestock gets along well in our little cubes of water, some don’t. A rock nem only tank would be amazing, but they sting too hard for a SPS reef I found out.
When I was restarting my tank I almost got some rock nem’s as they have amazing colors but decided to add some color while my sps grew out with zoanthids. I’m glad I went the route I did as they seem to get along decently and I have better control over where the zoas go.