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Opcn
05/27/2007, 07:49 PM
There should be a thread pinned up about where to find clams online and what to lookfor in clams, not just links but hobiests own words.

I've been looking for a T. Gigas online but can't find one for less than 94 dollars. I don't want to get one from the LFS because they are rather expesive there and my LFS is riddled with all kinds of parasitic snails and nudibranchs and is generally a place where inverts go to die.
jsl6v8
05/27/2007, 07:53 PM
clamsdirect.com riptidesreef.com I don't see many gigas anywhere but then I don't look for gigas... I hope you aren't putting a gigas in that 25g aquapod...
Opcn
05/27/2007, 08:19 PM
No, I just haven't updated my tanks for a while, I've got a rubbermade tub and a green house to put it in.
Haddonisreef
05/28/2007, 05:10 AM
There was a shop in Boulder that has one now an d can you explain your green house?
Scuba Josh
05/28/2007, 06:06 AM
Charlie...good question, I was wondering it myself.
Opcn
05/28/2007, 09:49 AM
Boulder is something like a 6 hour drive over the mountains from here. As for the green house there is a green house at my school here, and I can get some room in it if I want (Its heated and cooled). I have a chiller and a hand full of heaters, so I could do somehting like the sun powered reef in the large tanks thread for the summer and moswt of the spring and fall seasons, and then move it in doors and hit it with either my 150 MH or my 256 combined wattts of CF depending on how I want to set up my tanks.
Scuba Josh
05/28/2007, 10:47 AM
very interesting
ezcompany
05/28/2007, 11:12 AM
because that would be a post promoting commercial business. this forum is a hobbyist discussion forum.
Opcn
05/28/2007, 12:27 PM
People point to clams direct all the time in this forum, and if you look at other forums like the macro algae forum you will see that they post up places to find livestock.
ezcompany
05/28/2007, 01:41 PM
yes they do, but there is a difference in asking and getting an answer, and posting info straight out promoting the business.
Haddonisreef
05/28/2007, 02:44 PM
I just heard from someone who heard there were gigas in boulder! :twitch:
Krazy
05/28/2007, 04:20 PM
I scored a smaller gigas at my LFS, they were asking 49.99 I traded in one of my ultra crocea for it and some credit back as well..

SCORE!

They had a LARGE gigas as well like 6-7inchs, they were asking $99.99 and it was oh so worth it, (wishes he had a 180)

:)

good luck on your gigas hunt !