kien's 150g Room Divider Mixed Reef & Stuff

[kien]

Originally Posted by christyf5

lol thats a long time for my brain to have to go back So how big was it when you got it? It looks huge!

Ya no kidding! :-) Here is a pic of it from back in August 2009.



I guess you can't really get a sense of scale here but I believe it was like 3 or 4 inches. Its shell alone is twice that size now. In that early pic it doesn't have a lot of growth scutes. Its shell is quite smooth there. In newer pics it has quite a few scutes with blue clove polyps living in them

When it really fans out its mantles it is quite impressive.





In 5 years I have only ever seen it spawn once. I've had to move it quite a bit over the years. Where it lives now I had to remove a large piece of live rock structure as well, to accommodate it. It seems to have stopped or slowed down growing, thank goodness. I love it but unlike mostly all my other corals, I can't prune back the clam I also have this issue with my red goniopora on the other side of the tank that's trying to bust out of the tank. I'm running out of spots to move it to.