What's so cool about clams

[Redbird5]

I know they have interesting patterns and colors, and they move occasionally, but for the life of me I cannot figure out why people keep them. Why do people keep them?

 

[KrisReef]

I know they have interesting patterns and colors, and they move occasionally, but for the life of me I cannot figure out why people keep them. Why do people keep them?

I have heard or read that a lot of people feel the same way about SPS corals; "That don't do anything."

I knew a guy who collected and cloned orchids. Another buddy collects stamps and coins.

My favorite was a law student who collected unpaid parking tickets while going to school. He rented a cheap apartment from the Yogi, did meditation, and never paid all hundreds of parking tickets that gathered on his windows while he was in class to become a member of the bar. He calmly passed the lie detection test, breathing rythmically while he answered questions about his clean, parking ticket past. He went to traffic court, and because most of the hundreds of tickets were over a year old, and his car was registered out of state and his parents never forwarded him the tickets, where the judge fummed as he dismissed the majority of ignored windshield litter.

People do all kinds of things that are not always easy to figure out.

 

[Reefer Matt]

Hey thanks for the reminder! I’ve never tried keeping them, but I think I will in the new tank. My interest in them is the challenge, their color patterns, filtering utility, and overall aesthetic to a reef scene in an aquarium. I’m not sure which species yet, but definitely something colorful. It’d be nice to learn something new.

 

[Redbird5]

I have heard or read that a lot of people feel the same way about SPS corals; "That don't do anything."

I knew a guy who collected and cloned orchids. Another buddy collects stamps and coins.

My favorite was a law student who collected unpaid parking tickets while going to school. He rented a cheap apartment from the Yogi, did meditation, and never paid all hundreds of parking tickets that gathered on his windows while he was in class to become a member of the bar. He calmly passed the lie detection test, breathing rythmically while he answered questions about his clean, parking ticket past. He went to traffic court, and because most of the hundreds of tickets were over a year old, and his car was registered out of state and his parents never forwarded him the tickets, where the judge fummed as he dismissed the majority of ignored windshield litter.

People do all kinds of things that are not always easy to figure out.

Is he now a traffic lawyer?

 

[BriDroid]

I just LOVE them

To me, maybe it's because they are more like animals than corals (I LOVE corals too). Just knowing that I can keep them alive and growing is a great feeling of accomplishment. Especially when so many people can't. It's a great test of "can I keep my parameters stable enough"!

 

[Redbird5]

I just LOVE them

To me, maybe it's because they are more like animals than corals (I LOVE corals too). Just knowing that I can keep them alive and growing is a great feeling of accomplishment. Especially when so many people can't. It's a great test of "can I keep my parameters stable enough"!

It's the challenge of keeping them. I can see that. I think I have LPS for that reason.

 

[KrisReef]

Is he now a traffic lawyer?

He worked as an auto insurance claim advocate for awhile, assembling a wad of cash and then he slipped off the map into an early retirement.

 

[KrisReef]

Hey thanks for the reminder! I’ve never tried keeping them, but I think I will in the new tank. My interest in them is the challenge, their color patterns, filtering utility, and overall aesthetic to a reef scene in an aquarium. I’m not sure which species yet, but definitely something colorful. It’d be nice to learn something new.

If you get the chance to walk the reef in Rarotonga, you might come across a brialliant turquoise maxima that burns in a memory that is impossible to forget. They glow in the daylight sun while they burrow into the reef with their fleshy mantles capturing sunlight. Stunning, and like snowflakes with no two reflecting light in the same way.

 

[Gumbies R Us]

Something about them has always made me want them, and I don't know why, haha

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

A challenge!! It can live longer than you in ideal conditions, so keeping it alive for anything less than forever is a fail. Despite my best efforts I have failed repeatedly to keep them alive forever.