DeJong Marinelife scores a beautiful crop of Tuamotu Maxima Clams
Giant clams are the jewels of the reef and of reef aquariums but for all their glory, we spend way too little time talking about Tridacna clams. It’s been a while since we’ve touched on them, but at a recent visit to DeJong Marinelife in Holland, the Hybrid Gramma dejongi was not the only extraordinary reef Read More
Showpiece blue Derasa clam headed to the Northeast
You can get blue croceas and blue maxima clams all day long but for some reason blue is the holy grail coloration of Tridacna maxima and Tridacna derasa clams. Blue Maxima clams are show-stopping dramatic looking clams but blue Derasa clams are much more rare in the American reef aquarium scene. Very soon visitors to Jay’s Read More
RalfP’s mature reef aquarium is a world class coral display
RalfP’s reef aquarium is totally dope on so many levels it’s hard to know where to begin describing it. Huge mature coral colonies are creatively positioned together with large giant clams and plenty of open space in between that it really looks like a perfect slice of healthy coral reef. The exceptional size and health Read More
Bicolor maxima clam from Reefkoi is a new color pattern to us
Aberrations in giant clams are not unheard of but they are few and far between. There is one extreme example of a bicolor maxima clam from Tamotu and Reefkoi has previously had a gold foil maxima clam but his latest bicolor maxima clam is sporting a really strange color anomaly. It appears as if part Read More
Sexy blue spotted squamosa clam from Vietnam appears at Reefkoi
If you needed any indication that the reef aquarium season is ramping up, other than the plethora of livestock posts we’ve published recently, then this blue spotted squamosa clam from Reefkoi ought to be a good indicator. Reefkoi’s been tanking this three and half inch blue spotted Tridacna squamosa for over two months now. After Read More
Gold foil blue maxima clam from ReefKoi is practically one of a kind
The gold foil maxima clam is a particulalry unique mutation we’ve seen only once before in giant clams. The unusual Tridacna maxima clam from ReefKoi has the pattern of an average high quality blue maxima, but the normally all blue coloration is overlaid in some parts of the mantle by a very different metallic gold Read More
Jaw-dropping giant clams from Samoa appear at Extreme Corals DE
We’ve been covering new and sensational giant clams for years but a recent crop of farm raised clams from Samoa has definitely gotten our attention. The stunning, jaw-dropping clams appeared at the German Extreme Corals and they have some elements of blue Tridacna squamosa, Tridacna ‘maxea’, and one of them takes the black and white Read More
We haven’t seen an incredible blue teardrop maxima clam like this in a long time
Blue teardrop maxima clams used to be so common that Reefer Madness alone would serve up a couple each week. In the last few years the supply of blue teardop maxima clams has dried up to a trickle and this is the first showstopping large blue teardrop maxima we’ve seen in a long time. We Read More
Blue. Squamosa. Clam.
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