红海凸轮已经有二十年来一直没有进入水族馆的爱好Dejong Marine Life和美国通过ACI Aquaculture。The three species from the fabled Red Sea that are being made available through aquaculture in Egypt includetridacnasquamosa，，，，T. Maxima和流行T. Squamosina。
我们尚未看到足够多的红色海洋鳞蛤s进行任何实质性的观察，因此我们必须重新审视这种大型生长物种的特殊地点。但是，我们确实收到了一个非常奇怪的标本，如上图所示，它具有出色的图案暗示与Maxima的某些意外交叉授粉。
Without enough experience at whattridacnasquamosalooks like from the Red Sea, it’s presumptuous to make any definitive conclusions until we get to see more examples. But with that caveat it’s safe to say that whatever this calm is it’s a real stunner with an eye-catching mantle from across a room.
But what is really novel for us, and just about anyone receiving these in the last few months, are the very differenttridacna鳞状素蛤，这是历史上第一次首次亮相水族馆。由于这是我们第一次看到这些，因此我们对图像难以代表的该物种的可变性感到惊讶。
The brownish specimen of Squamosina has a surprising blue interior to its mantle, and just enough thin white stripes to be recognized as a squamosina. The other specimen is a light orange-brown in color with many thin stripes that have an indeterminate color between orange and pink, and brighter everyday. It also has a thin green perimeter but not as vivid as the larger bivalve although we expect this feature to become more prominent as the clam settles in.
但是红海的最大是a variety that we are familiar with, since these used to be present in the aquarium hobby in the early nineties, and are thoroughly documented in the first generation of reef books by Sprung, Nilsen and others. But if you’re looking to cop some Red Sea maximas expecting them to be as flamboyant as Tuamotu specimens, you should look elsewhere.
The smaller maxima clams from the Red Sea don’t give up their colors so easily, but they are developing and conditioning into very nice bivalves. The huge iridophores (eyes) of these Maximas look very different than those seen in other parts of the world, but the really unique feature is the bright golden edge of the mantle that we’ve long associated with this part of the world.
重要的是要记住tridacna蛤几乎没有荧光颜色,但they are packed with some of the brightest chromatic pigments which look best under broad spectrum white light. Unlike the Pacific cultured clams that arrive at wholesalers and LFS within days of their departure, the Red Sea clams have a much longer journey to America, and deserve a little more TLC to get acclimated back into show condition.
如果您是需要视网膜融化荧光颜色即时满足的冷藏剂，那么这些不是您要寻找的双壳类动物。红海蛤s是一种不同的品种，值得真正的巨型蛤saficionado的照顾和关注。
尽管我们已经有十个，但我们不会停止种植双壳类殖民地，因为不能保证将来红海蛤s继续使用。但是，据我们所知，我们有信心，红色海上的最大值和鱿鱼会发展为表现出我们从未见过的颜色和图案。
