Fresh water clam

[Trdrollinon22s]

Fw clam stickin his neck out to move

 

[Fishie]

Cool! Where'd you get it? Can all freshwater tanks have clam? Might get one myself once my new tank cycled .

 

[blackmolly]

awesome! how long have you had it?

 

[fort384]

Please read the sticky in the Freshwater & Brackish - Fish or Plant Profiles forum:
http://www.aquariumadvice.com/forums/f29/what-goes-in-this-forum-151203.html

I have moved this thread to Show Off/Photography

 

[Trdrollinon22s]

I've had that clam in there for about 3 yrs now I actually pulled it from a local lake !!

 

[Fishie]

I've had that clam in there for about 3 yrs now I actually pulled it from a local lake !!

Awesome have anything else with it?

 

[Trdrollinon22s]

Yea I have 6 fw clams and 2 plecos and a mating pair of bosmi rainbows. With a bunch of babies

 

[Fishie]

Yea I have 6 fw clams and 2 plecos and a mating pair of bosmi rainbows. With a bunch of babies

Cool! I might get some from a local lake.

 

[blackmolly]

what do you feed them? those are cool!

 

[Fdsh5]

You don't feed them. They are filter feeders. They simply filter water through their "mouth" and eat microorganisms. I have one big clam in my tank and it's cool to watch. They don't do much or move often but it's cool when they do. It looks like they stick out their tongue and pull themselves along.

 

[Trdrollinon22s]

It is alsome to wake in the moring and u can see the track they leave

 

[Fdsh5]

I don't have any clams in my sand tanks. The tank it is in is gravel. I don't see any trails just find him in a different spot

 

[redsea]

It is alsome to wake in the moring and u can see the track they leave

That sounds very cool! Nice clams by the way!

 

[Derekkaine]

That is an odd looking neck.

 

[00youknowit00]

Very cool! You just take these from a local lake?

 

[absolutangel04]

Nice picture. I have heard pretty mixed reviews about people being able to keep freshwater clams alive. Good job for keeping this guy for so long. They are super cool little critters IMO.

 

[Derekkaine]

Do the clams smell like fish?

 

[Fdsh5]

No the fish smell like clams. Lol just kidding. They only smell when they die

 

[Derekkaine]

I remember when I had a apple snail die on me, he didn't come out of his shell for a week so I picked him up and it smelled like dead apple snail. At that moment I accidentally dropped him on the floor and brown liquid snail gushed all over the carpet in my room.

 

[Fdsh5]

Oh man I bet that rug smelled great for a while after that