Giant Clam Requiem

A Note from Charles Delbeek, in response to the web-special article by Dr. Dieter Brockman, Requiem for a Giant Clam:

I just read Dieter's article on his clam, and, for the record: the one in Waikiki has been kept in a closed system since 2002. There is also a second one that arrived a year later in 1983 but was less than a year old when we got it. It was from one of the first batches ever reared in captivity by Gerry Heslinga at that time.

Both those clams are much larger than Dieter's, both are over 3 ft. The old one is now 32 years old and the smaller is 27.

J. Charles Delbeek,
San Francisco