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08-09-2007, 11:22 PM
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Pinch That Penny
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Location: Redmond Oregon
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FIRST CLAM!!! (pic)
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08-09-2007, 11:25 PM
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Duper Mod !
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Illinois
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Wow thats a beautiful clam!
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08-10-2007, 07:49 AM
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Eat more PIE
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Awesome man 
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08-10-2007, 09:29 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: spartanburg, south carolina
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Wow, very cool!
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08-10-2007, 09:56 AM
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Mommy Mod
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: down the street and around the corner from Dimples
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very very pretty!
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08-10-2007, 10:03 AM
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I've got the REEF rash!
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: New Jersey
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WOW! What a Nice Clam!And your first!
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08-10-2007, 06:51 PM
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Pinch That Penny
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Redmond Oregon
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yeah this is my first. I found out the hard way that they use alot of alk/cal! Flyguy came over and helped me on this. Tank was way low but the guy was hanging in there. Now I'm actually dosing with 2 part and it's working out pretty good.
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08-10-2007, 06:59 PM
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Just some guy, you know?
Join Date: Sep 2005
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Very nice!
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08-10-2007, 07:02 PM
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Pinch That Penny
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Redmond Oregon
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thanks everyone. I heard they were hard to keep alive so I've always been skeptical about it.
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08-11-2007, 09:38 PM
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Big Fishy
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Pensacola, FL
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Very nice! What are the specs on your tank? (Size lights flow etc?) Thanks
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08-11-2007, 09:41 PM
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Awesome colors! very nice.
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08-11-2007, 11:10 PM
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Pinch That Penny
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Redmond Oregon
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tank is 50 gal with 15 gallon sump, dual 175 watt mh lights, with cls. I have a reeflo snapper running my cls. it's something like 2800 gph or something like that.
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08-11-2007, 11:10 PM
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Pinch That Penny
Join Date: Mar 2007
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thanks MS
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08-11-2007, 11:18 PM
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Still Here, But Gone
Join Date: Jan 2007
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Quote:
Originally Posted by luvmylo
thanks everyone. I heard they were hard to keep alive so I've always been skeptical about it.
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they require plankton foods if i remember correctly
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08-13-2007, 12:29 PM
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Just some guy, you know?
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: West of Dimples
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ChilisREasy
they require plankton foods if i remember correctly
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I wrote an FAQ on clams (Stuck at the top of this Fourm) at the bottom of it (Last post in the thread) I have a bunch of data about phyto and clams, it mostly relates to busting the myth that small clams need to be fead phyto, but it applies here too. The data is from James Fatheree's book, and though clams needing to be fead is still debated, I do not think it's true. I bought a clam that was very small and purposally did not feed it because I had faith in the data presented in that book. My clam grew at a tremendous rate, and is still healthy, now twice the size it was.
Don't forget that there is plenty of detritus and naturally occuring phyto present in your tank for the clams to eat without adding any 
HTH,
Whiskey
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