leaffish75
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I know maximas are high light clams, but would it thrive in my tank? I have 300 watts of vho over the tank. light are 6" from the surface.
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mikeguerrero
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I don't know about Maximas, but I would recommend a crocea clam, they have very beautiful varieties to choose from and they would do good under your lighting. I had two do really well under my 109 watts of PC lighting in a 12 gallon cube....
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leaffish75
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i had a dersea and it didnt make it. I just hate knowing that the lower light clams grow so fast
mikeguerrero
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Crocea are not lower light clams. They are very beautiful and blue in color nothing like the dersea. The crocea has a lot of turquise and tints of blues that make them eye catchers...
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maximas get larger then croceas but croceas tend to be more light demanding. croceas also are often sold at a smaller size and require feeding. I have all three types (although I just got the crocea 8 days ago) and seem to be doing fine. I have them under metal halides though. How much of your 300W is white light and how much is blue? clams being shallower water tend to need more white but look real nice under blue.
leaffish75
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I have 3 actinics and 1 10K. i was using 2 actinics and 2 super actinic whites (50/50) I didnt like the pink look of the tank so i switch to the 3 blue and one 10K
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yea a lot of people do that for astetics and it works well for less light demanding critters, but it is not generally recomended for higher light organisms like clams and sps's. Sure a lot of people with 400W halides run 20,000K but thats because they have plenty of light and get the intensity needed for photosynthesis through wattage and the intensity of MH. When your talking flourecent lighting you get more PAR and "brightness" out of 10K's, actinic whites, and 6500K type bulbs and if you want clams you may have to switch back to 50-50. I don't have a specific thread to point you too, but I have read this advise over and over from the experts like Calfo and Fenner on WWM as well as others. Some even recomend that if you use the old 5W per gallon rule you have to exclude the actinics from the equation. Now I don't know if I would go that far, because some photosynthetic pigments actually do best at converting some of the lower wavelengths (about 450nm) But on this sort of advise I waited till I had halides to try clams, of course there are others like mikeguerrero who have success with flourecent lights so for every "rule" there are exceptions, but remember he does have 9W per gallon which is pretty high and a very shallow tank.