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01-13-2008, 08:12 AM
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| | Flamingo Tongue
Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Central, FL
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|  Clams and Metal Halides
I finally bit the budget and got a metal halide fixture!  My fixture has 2 250 watt MH and 4 96 watt actinic lights. I have a dersa and a crocea clam. I am pretty sure it is a crocea clam. Can I put the rock that the crocea is on - on the sand? or does it need to be closer to the top? It is on the sand now, but under the MH. As for the dersa, its on a flat rock that I buried in the sand so that it looks like it is on the sand and it too is under the MH.
Am I doing it right?
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Established October 2006
120g acrylic, 2-250w MH, 4-65w actinic, saddle & tomatoe clowns, naso & yellow tang, cleaner shrimp, LT & carpet anemone, deresa & crocea clam, green bubble, white bubble, christmas tree worms, green star/blue clove/yellow polyps, asst. zoas, mushrooms, frogspawn, brain coral, ricordias, toadstool leather, colt | 
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01-13-2008, 08:14 AM
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| | Gnarly Old Codfish
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Silverdale, Washington Age: 58
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Congrats! -- nice light system.
Clams should be fine (and do well under them) -- easy to tell if they are happy or not. _________ AG "125," AquaC EV 180, 30 gal sump, "SCWD", 80 lbs LR, CoralSeaLife "Moonlite" Hood, PFO 250W HQI Mini-Pendant (SPS HQI 14000k bulb)
12 Gallon NanoCube - 24w stock PC 50/50 light "...nothing good ever happens fast in a reef tank, only bad things happen fast..."
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01-13-2008, 12:30 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: ohio Age: 32
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My fiend keeps his under 400 watts of MH. They look awesome..
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5.5 gal, 72w of pcs, 2 leds, rio nano skimmer, 40 gal hob filter, 50w visi-therm heater, 5pds lr, 1 inch live sand bed, 1 australian black perc clown ,1 porcelain crab, , 1 pep shrimp, 1 lge turbo , 3 cerith, 1 astrea, 1 nassaruis snails, neon grn bali slimer acro, purple acro, millipora's, feather duster, monti's, duncans, grn polyps, shrooms, zoa's, blue clove polyps, purple death pallys and grn star plyps. | |
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01-13-2008, 03:31 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Meriden, Connecticut Age: 43
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I have my Clams under 2(250 watt DE HQI's) with great results!
One Crocea is 1/2 way up in my tank with one of my Baby Maxima's, while my large Squamosa, and two other Maxima's are on the bottom in the substrate on a piece of small rock!
You should be fine where you have them!
Good Luck! _________ 125gal.w/Mag9.5 return(dual megaflow)>Mag7 pump Aqua Cev180skimmer.Wave2k Hamilton Reefstar(2)250watthqi(mh)pend.a Yellow, Naso Tang Red Lip Blenny Percula Clown Demoiselles Niger Trigger F. Wrasses Ceriantharia Orn.Shrimp and Stars Hermits Queen Conch asst. snails> Stars Zoos shrooms Montipora Brains Gorgonians Favia Turbinaria(large+small polyp) Acropora Xenia Tridacna (CroceaMaximaSquamosa) Leathers <35+75gal.reef tank as well> 
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02-28-2008, 03:55 PM
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| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Menifee, CA Age: 36
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Granted my tank is shollow in comparison to many, I keep my 2 crocea's on the bottom. I have a 40g 14"in depth. The 150w metal halide sits 6" above the water surface. They are happy as a clam. (pun intended) | |
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