The Thrive Clam Kit was released by Thrive Aquatics about a year ago and although it doesn’t get much fanfare, it really should. The Thrive Clam Kit is a bundle of TLC for Tridacna giant clams with three key ingredients to ease the transition to aquarium life, and from one tank to another. The crux Read More

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The Coralline Clam is a new species of Tridacna giant clam has been found living in plain sight on the shallow reefs of the Solomon Islands. The very unusual clam species was discovered by Julian Sprung on some recent shallow diving when he noticed some abnormal movements of ‘coralline algae’. Upon closer inspection Mr. Sprung Read More

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When we first got wind of Gerald Heslinga’s new book on giant clams, Saving Giants was an obligatory download to our iPad ebook collection; the giant clam authority and IPSF frontman knows a thing or two about Tridacnids. Little did we know that Saving Giants would deliver instant satisfaction with an abundance of information since Read More

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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

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Tridacna gigas, the largest of all the giant clams can grow to four feet across and even if most specimens never reach more than three feet long, the weight and size of these bivalves is massive. Once extinct in the Philippines, giant clams are getting a boost from a dedicated giant clam nursery called the Bolinao Read More

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Giant clams are awesome and there’s never been a better time to get into Tridacna. Clams are available from Cocos to cooks, from Vietnam to Tuamotu as well as many farm raised specimens. Every fish store and e-trailer has a few clams but not since Clams Direct has there been one go-to source for quality Read More

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Tridacna gigas is the giant clam of this remarkable group of molluscs, and one of the fastest and largest growing clam species. One particular Tridacna gigas clam has been living at the Waikiki Aquarium since bell bottoms were in style and since Bruce Carlson had mutton chops. If you thought that the forty year old sixbar Read More

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Tridacna tevoroa is a very little known species of giant clam with a limited distribution centered around the Tonga Islands. The living specimens of the “Devil Clam” was described as Tridacna tevoroa but it was originally described as Tridacna mbalavuana from just its shells, although both names can be used interchangeable. With its dark and not-at-all colorful Read More

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This story about Tridacna costata was originally published over three years ago. Almost nothing more has come to our attention regarding the little known Tridacna costata from the Red Sea, so here’s a refresher You know, when the first reports surfaced of a new giant clam species, Tridacna costata, being discovered in the Red Sea using molecular Read More

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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

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