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…

Mini Maxi cozies up to a blue squamosa clam in light field

http://pictures.lytro.com/ReefBuilders/pictures/227113 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…

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,…

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…

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…