herefishiefishie
03/07/2001, 10:15 AM
Every week I will be posting a new mollusk for discussion. Please post everything you know about this week's mollusk, to include pics, care and feeding habits, optimal environment, common names, and anything else you can think of.
This week's mollusk is the Crocus Clam (T. crocea), often referred to as the "jewel of the reef" for its wide range of spectacular colors. This is the most light-loving clam of the genus, and requires particularly intense light. Also, it has the srongest byssal attachment (because of its usual place at the top of the reef where it can be buffeted by strong currents), thus it requires a hard substrate. Among the Tridacnid clams, the crocus clam can withstand the highest current, low-to-medium current as compared with the very low-to-low current required by other clams. In the wild, it tends to burrow into the rock upon which it finds itself, being almost entirely encased in rock by adulthood.
Here's mine (next to a brown maxima):
http://www.thehedgemaze.com/members/shaman/here/croceamax1028.jpg
[Edited by herefishiefishie on 03-07-2001 at 11:21 AM]
This week's mollusk is the Crocus Clam (T. crocea), often referred to as the "jewel of the reef" for its wide range of spectacular colors. This is the most light-loving clam of the genus, and requires particularly intense light. Also, it has the srongest byssal attachment (because of its usual place at the top of the reef where it can be buffeted by strong currents), thus it requires a hard substrate. Among the Tridacnid clams, the crocus clam can withstand the highest current, low-to-medium current as compared with the very low-to-low current required by other clams. In the wild, it tends to burrow into the rock upon which it finds itself, being almost entirely encased in rock by adulthood.
Here's mine (next to a brown maxima):
http://www.thehedgemaze.com/members/shaman/here/croceamax1028.jpg
[Edited by herefishiefishie on 03-07-2001 at 11:21 AM]