Vivid Aquarium order coming soon

Looks good. Been waiting to see how everything looked & how it went. Been eyeballing a couple of thier pieces lately myself.

 

Will the birdsnest get fuzzy polyps?

 

lol corailline .. One of my favorite past times as well haha. Except I just sit and drool over the corals I can't afford haha.

 

not to thrilled with vivid every thing is way to small ( frags sized) and both clams died shortly after 2 weeks. and when they say 1 1/2 inches they mean it. i never seen a clam that small for 99.00!!!! what was i thinking ?

 

Yes just give it a couple days to acclimate. Overall, the corals I would say look very good. Sps can take several days to acclimate. If after 4 days you do not see an improvement in PE, put up another image. BN can be touchy about not having enough flow and show reduced PE, but I would give it a couple days first before moving it all over.

 

It's actually getting blasted with flow

 

Very small clams have to fed phyto

 

well thats not true. i have a 2 inch clam from liveaquara that i have had a while and its fine. i feed my corals and inverts special foods. besides what i feed the fish.

 

http://www.3reef.com/forums/clams/aquarium-myths-baby-clams-110472.html
From Mike J Rice:
This is where the real science started to come out. While the fact that they possess less surface area for zooxanthellae to live on while they are small is obvious, you must consider density of the zooxanthellae. It has been found in several prominent studies that for unknown reasons density actually goes down as a clam matures, which means that a small clam actually has more ability to produce nutrients from light proportionally to mantel size. You must also consider how much energy a clam must produce to live and grow. As a clam's mantel grows it's shell grows rapidly out of proportion and consumes more and more energy the bigger the clam gets. Clams internal soft parts also gain mass out of proportion and need much more energy the bigger the clam gets. So a larger clam not only has a less efficient mantel, but it also requires more energy.

 

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