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wakesetter
06/13/2004, 04:45 PM
here is a pic of a squamosa with mushrooms on one side and xenia on the other. Lets see some pics of coral growth on clam shells. I didn't put these there. They just grew on their own. This is actually an old pic. One side is covered with shrooms and the other is covered in xenia. http://www.coastal-aquariums.com/CCSclam.jpg

wakesetter
06/16/2004, 12:56 AM
nobody has anything growing on their clams?

techdef
06/16/2004, 06:35 PM
MIne are totally covered in little tube worms w/ red heads & hard shells. Pretty cool, no current pix though...

starmanres
06/28/2004, 10:30 PM
I had an aiptasia on my squamos, but a little Joe's Juice solved that.

Other than that he's very clean.

Robert

cwbroden
06/28/2004, 11:22 PM
I have a little bit of some macro algae growing on the lower part of one of my crocea clams. Nothing that a little pruning every few weeks can't keep in check. Does not seem to bother the clam at all.

Freed
06/28/2004, 11:29 PM
I have a green hairy mushroom growing on the side of my 8" derasa. Will submit pics later.

Potsy
06/29/2004, 11:53 AM
Tube snails, fan worms, plating coraline, macroalgae. The only white I see is brand new shell growth.

tnyr5
06/30/2004, 06:25 PM
http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/s/b/sbj4/aquarium/psu_photogallery/FrameSet.htm capnella growing on our gigas clam at PSU, this pic is old, he's about 20" now and has several colonies of pocillopora on his shell

RonSF
06/30/2004, 08:08 PM
My 4" crocea has this blue sponge growing on his shell. I just haven't got the nerve to try to extricate it yet. I'm concerned that it may be secreting something that helps bore into rocks which may degrade the shell, but think it looks pretty and don't want to kill the sponge. I think that whetever it is doing to the clam is making the crocea shell look like a maxima shell with raised scutes, so it can't be completely benign. I may give it a shot this weekend, trying to save at least a bit of the blue sponge for my LR.
-Ron
http://img59.photobucket.com/albums/v180/RonSF/Sponge-on-Shell.jpg