Blue Squamosa Clams down to $99 at Old Town Aquarium, Chicago
The Blue Squamosa clam was once the holy grail of Tridacna giant clams, virtually never seen in the aquarium world until a trickle of specimens began to be imported earlier last year. The first few handfuls of the blue squammies were are very similar in appearance, with completely clean shells indicative that these specimens were Read More
Mini Maxi cozies up to a blue squamosa clam in light field
The Blue Squamosa Clams from last week are starting to get around and man are these beauties great. Some people also love Mini Maxi pseudo-carpet anemones and we just happened to capture one cozying up to a stunning small-blue-spotted squamosa clam. At this size the blue squamosa clam definitely has the shell and mantle of the Read More
Blue Squamosa clams appear in small batch at Renaissance Aquatics
Ah the Blue Squamosa Clam, the rarest color form of the widely available Tridacna squamosa is almost never seen, but a “big” batch of these rare gems is already in the United States. Any given year, we may see one, maybe two nice specimens of this beautiful clam and they are never recent imports, they Read More
Blue Squamosa clams, Tridacna squamosa, remind us why we like to reef
Blue Squamosa clams are among the rarest invertebrates which are quasi-never available for the home reef aquarium. Therefore you can imagine our surprise when we stumbled on a benign looking booth that was packing not one, not two, but two and a half extremely beautiful blue Tridacna squamosa. You may be asking yourself what we Read More