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Posted: December 12 2009 at 12:15pm |
Got it yesterday. He is awesome! As you can see color is the same with or without flash. Really bright guy! :)  
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Posted: December 12 2009 at 1:49pm |
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Awesome. It has been years since we have had any in our tank but those were the kids favorite.
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Posted: December 12 2009 at 2:00pm |
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Posted: December 12 2009 at 3:03pm |
They are beautiful. Do you know how to care for it?
I let the Alk get a little low for a few weeks and at the same time I neglected feeding phyto, which caused this beautiful Spiney Oyster to pass away. 
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Posted: December 12 2009 at 4:24pm |
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I heard that they can be fed with cyclopeeze or something like this. But i didn't try direct feeding yet. How often should add phyto to my tank?
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Posted: December 12 2009 at 6:41pm |
I've had mine for a month, I spot feed a little phyto about 2 times a week, I dunno if its too much but he's fine, I had to turn a rock around to make him visible, but the day after my anemone kicked him out of his hole and now he hides at the bottom where its difficult to spot feed
he's definately cool I like em 
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Posted: December 12 2009 at 11:19pm |
Almost all of these non-photosynthetic bivalves need a lot of crud to eat. They live in dirtier conditions. Give them as much phytoplankton as you can buy or grow and be sure to stir
the sand often to feed them detritus and bacteria. It's not that necessary to target feed, just dump in a gallon of phyto and watch the tank eat it up and the water clear in a few hours.
It's easy to grow Phyto in a big pretzel/corn puff plastic jar.  This one grew in the window.
Here I grew phyto in a tub. Looks like ~10 gallons had just been removed. I did this weekly.
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Posted: December 13 2009 at 2:16am |
Thanks Mark. I am actually also growing phyto. Not in this quantities of course  . I have a 2 liter soda bottle. So i can feed like 100-200ml every day. Is that enough for 75g tank? (Probably not...)
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Posted: December 15 2009 at 2:40am |
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Sorry about your scallop. Those are really cool. Any idea why the crabs suddenly wanted shellfish?
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Posted: December 15 2009 at 8:56pm |
oh no!! I'm sorry I dunno why they would do that, my crab have never even bothered it, not even my emerald crab. My scallop decided not to grace me with his presence anymore and went to the back under a rock 
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Posted: December 15 2009 at 11:16pm |
Hermits can smell the beginnings of death.
It could also be too many hungry hermits in the tank. I keep less than half as many hermits as snails.
Unfortunately, death comes too easy for Flame scallops in our aquariums.
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Posted: December 16 2009 at 8:17am |
I'm sorry to hear (and see) this. They are cool looking and I hate loosing critters.
Mike
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