I too agree with what you are saying, but I believe that the problem was in
the delivery. Sarcasm is taken very differently in email. FWIW
Craig
> Joe,
>
> I have to agree with Andrew on this. Almost every species of T. clam lives
> on top of the reef, in extremely high light zones. When the clams are
> introduced to an environment that does not have enough light, they slowly
> die over a period of weeks, or even months. The reason this happens is
that
> when you first bring the clam home, it has billions of xooanthelle in it,
> which are producing food for the clam. They are multiplying and producing
> more and more food as the clam grows, this is due to the high amounts of
> light they receive.
>
> Without the proper amount of light, over time, the xooanthelle begin to
die.
> Sooner or later, there is not enough xooanthelle to produce enough food
for
> the clam, and it dies. Even if you introduce food into the water for the
> clams, they still need high amounts of light to live. Is what will happen,
> is the clam will seem fine for months, then one day you wake up and it is
> dead, and there are crabs and worms eating it.
>
> You will note, most SPS corals can only take so much light before they
begin
> to show signs of distress. They quit opening, loose color, bleach out and
> eventually die. Clams on the other hand are different. They can take dang
> near as much light as you can give them, and they love it. It is not
> uncommon for aquarists to keep these animals directly under 400 watt MHs,
> and the clams open up and think it is great. An SPS under this type of
light
> may suffer, and quickly die. It is just more evidence that the clams are
> light loving animals, and thus, we should try to keep them in high light
set
> ups. I would increase your lighting to the PCS or VHO as Andrew suggested
if
> you want to help guarantee long term survival of the clams.
>
> Andrew also had a good point regarding calcium and alkalinity usage. These
> animals, when growing correctly, use a lot of calcium from the water. If
you
> added the right amount of light to the tank, you would be hard pressed to
> keep up with the calcium usage the clam would demand (especially 2).
>
> The tank is yours, and you can keep whatever you want in there, but please
> consider the opinions and advice you get from others on the list. One huge
> advantage to belonging to a list is that you dont have to learn from your
> own mistakes, you can learn from others mistakes (and experience).
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