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08-13-2004, 12:59 PM
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Big Fishy
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Flowery Branch, GA
Posts: 789
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Just thought this might interest some!
New source for live baby captive raised cuttle fish! If you are not familiar with this very interesting and intelligent creature, look at the picture below.
http://www.octopets.com/Merchant2/me...ode=Cuttlefish
Neat stuff, and something a lot of people have desired for a LONG time and pretty cheap. The only drawback is they are short lived (1.5-2 years) and they do get large.
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08-13-2004, 01:17 PM
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Big Fishy
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Atlanta, GA
Posts: 921
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Must have been cultivated to feed the giant squid the GA aquarium plans to display.  |
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08-13-2004, 02:35 PM
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Sodomy non sapiens
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: winder, Georgia USA
Posts: 714
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Would these live in a reef tank refugarium?
http://www.octopets.com/Merchant2/me...Code=Ceph-Feed
Clam Bed for your sand bed
Our cultured clams are another great diversity builder for your reef system. They work great in your sand bed or refugium, by naturally filtering dissolved organics and suspended detrital particles. Their constant movement stirs and aerates your sand bed. Our clams range in size from 8-15 mm, they have beautiful shells with variable colors.
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08-13-2004, 03:14 PM
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Summer's Daddy
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Lawrenceville, Ga in a van down by the river
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Jess, I am not gonna ask about about your name tag...LOL..
I would think they would work. In fact there are studies where people are using Giant Clam tanks as a natural filter inline with the reef tank. My clams dropped my nitrate levels somewhat significantly and Mike Jackson reported the same thing. This site would have been so great if I still had my puffer (he loved clams). I am so glad you provided a link to this site.
I am now very curious. I am contemplating buing some of these and putting them in a fuge. I wonder if there are lighting requirements or not. I have a 12 inch sandbed and about 50-100 lbs of live rock (base) in a 55 gal tank I use with no lighting just as a natural filter. They would probably do well in there.
Ray
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08-13-2004, 04:29 PM
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Skimmer and Reactor
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: East Atlanta Village
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I don't think I could have clams in my fuge. Too tempting when I run out of stuff to make for dinner.
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08-13-2004, 04:55 PM
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Sodomy non sapiens
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: winder, Georgia USA
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Jess, I am not gonna ask about about your name tag...LOL..
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Its a very afirmitive "I don't know"
The only down side I can think of is that some part of their lifecycle is destructive, but that may not be a problem in a reef tank.
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"Reasonable men adapt themselves to their environment; unreasonable men try to adapt their environment to themselves. Thus all progress is the result of the efforts of unreasonable men." -- George Bernard Shaw my tank
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08-13-2004, 07:38 PM
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More than a little fishy.
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Grayson, GA
Posts: 630
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buggered if I know!?
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08-13-2004, 08:06 PM
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Sodomy non sapiens
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: winder, Georgia USA
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"well spoted"  Didn't know if buggered would throw a red flag here. The web nanny software at work was writted in Austraila and gets excited over it.
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"Reasonable men adapt themselves to their environment; unreasonable men try to adapt their environment to themselves. Thus all progress is the result of the efforts of unreasonable men." -- George Bernard Shaw my tank
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08-13-2004, 09:29 PM
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going broke fast
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: N 33° 57.067 W 084° 32.510 (Marietta Ga.)
Posts: 555
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buggered if I know!?,,,too
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08-15-2004, 01:13 PM
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Reefer Grrl
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Midtown Atlanta
Posts: 141
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These are sandbed clams like you can get from ipsf.com. They actually borrow under the sand and keep it mixed up fairly well. I've got 6 of them in my fuge. I'm sure ipsf could answer any specific questions...
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