I love aquaculture and advancement of captive breeding. It means we take less from the wild and and are making conscious efforts to make the hobby much more sustainable and give less ammunition to those people that are anti hobby. Recently Biota Aquariums, one of the leaders in aquaculture and captivebreeding world, has brought the Hippopus clams back in the aquarium trade and I went to go check it out. After a month of holding of quarantine and observation, we came to realize some awesome things about this rather low profile clam.
1.) It's THE best filter feeding clam in the market. It polishes water better then any clam that Biota has in their inventory and even cleared up dino outbreak in one tank.
2.) One of the fastest growing clams.
3.) Nearly bullet proof clam. I think this actually takes Deresa run for it's money.
4.) Colors are changing under LED lights. Both Jake and I noticed some color changes in depth of darkness, color rims are developing on some of the clams and some patches of green sparkles are developing on some of the clam.
Jake was telling me how it was the best natural water polishing "machine" and I decided to put it to test and dose ungodly amount of Reef Nutrition's Phyto-feast in the water to demonstrate how well these clams polish water in aquarium settings.
Check it out!