Triton Reef has been attracting a lot of attention for their revolutionary approach to chemistry and novel water testing service, but behind the company are die hard hobbyists that really love reefing. TheTriton Reefreef,是一个郁郁葱葱的石质珊瑚花园,肯定超过了非常天然的Aquascape中使用的现场岩石,但Triton的真正明星是巨大的Tridacna gigasgiant clam.
It’s one thing to grow corals big and lay down a ton of skeleton into large coral colonies but agiant,giant clam has even greater mineral and chemical demands. In the Triton Reef you can clearly see the growth of the shell in the three years this beast has super-sized each of its valves much bigger than a kitchen sink. The past three years of growth have been supported exclusively withTriton Reef Elementz并点燃了Triton Lani LED fixture.
我们以前曾见过水族馆gigas蛤lam,经常在巨大的展览中,蛤lam看起来并不那么大,也不经常会发展出美丽的金属蓝色斑点,以至于特里顿礁蛤cllam的丰富。但是在这个大礁坦克的环境中,巨型Tridacna gigasabsolutely dwarfs every coral, every invertebrate, and even the adult reef fish swimming around it appear to be miniatures.
The only downside to keeping such a large giant clam so happy and healthy is that in time, the Gigas clam does what all animals are programmed to do, it spawns. When a one pound clam releases a little cloud of gametes into a large aquarium it’s cute. When a wheelbarrow sized mollusk decides it’s time to procreate in a confined aquarium, very bad things can happen to the water quality, fast.
Thankfully, the Triton Reef staff is intimately familiar with their pet giant clam and the gigas clam will actually “practice” the forceful ejection of its gametes for days before the actual release, and measures can be taken to mitigate the effect of a hundred million clam eggs from polluting the entire aquarium. Seeing a near-adult sizedTridacna gigas蛤在野外是一种罕见的景象,在水族馆中,由于目前尚未培养该物种。但是,如果您有机会亲密地看到其中一个野兽双壳类动物,它将为您提供新的尊重这些动物可以成长的巨大尺寸。