Tag: tridacna gigas
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Hope for the oceans: The Giant Clam Nursery
Meet the giant clam, the building block of our oceans These clams are considered custodians of the reef: They provide food as well as lodging to fish. If we take a ruler and measure out five feet (or 1.524 meters to be Google-exact), this abstraction roughly translates to less than the average height of a…
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Anvaya Cove Clam Seeding: How to rehabilitate a coral reef with giant clams
The video above documents the clam seeding activity in Anvaya Cove. 79 giant clams were brought in on Friday, December 4 2009 and went through acclimatization in the shallow water a few feet from the shore. The next day, all the clams were tagged and measured. Out of the 79 clams, there were four mature…
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