Fresh water Clams!!!!!!!

Does any 1 know anything bout fresh water Clams??
can they be kepy pretty ok in an aquarium??
i ask becuz with eatser commin up ma entire family goes down to a HUGE PARK
that has a freshwater beach/Lake!!!
its pretty nice!!!
iv gotten a cpl clams before but never did anything with em!
i wanna know if i would be able to put them in a cpl of my tanks......
i want some!!



any one???
and a PRE- Thanx to those that help!:)

i have had some in my 25g i got off of aquabid, out of the 4 i got 2 survived.. i like them, very cool to watch them bounce all around and dig themselves in the gravel.

they bounce??? lol
thats kool!!! how much were they on aqua bid?
and wat kind?

i had some for like 2 days. they were kinda like snails on the bottom. then my oscars seen them.

haha
did they really eat em?

I have heard that they are a bit of a pain unless you really know what you are doing. If one dies and you don't find it within a day or so it can foul up your tank pretty bad. I looked into them about a year ago and risk vs reward wasn't to my liking at all so I stayed away from them.

LAME!!!!!
iv read a lil bout em!
supposebly care for them is really easy!!!
and that their good filters themselves??
they keep the sand and water clean.......

There are a lot of clams that when they reproduce their young are parasites that can hurt fish....
If you want to try them do so in a fishless tank and see how you like them and if you can care for them before putting them into a main tank...... 3 weeks minimum, in case of disease.

I wuld stay away if i wer you. The water conditions in your tank are way differant than a lake. They will start to produce toxins to mimmic their needs and throw your levels off and eventualy die. They stink bad when they do(trust me!). Lake Perris is where my kids got them from.

thats wat i was thinkin bout doin!!
they said the smallest tank u can have em in is a 10....and i got lik 3 or so!!:)
ima have to QT them any way! they are goin to be WC clams
how do u know wen they die though??lol

sal wrote:

I wuld stay away if i wer you. The water conditions in your tank are way differant than a lake. They will start to produce toxins to mimmic their needs and throw your levels off and eventualy die. They stink bad when they do(trust me!). Lake Perris is where my kids got them from.

aww man!! i c y!!!
Lake perris SUX!!!!!!!!!
thats the dirtiest water that cann ever be in a lake!!!
i wouldnt get em from lake perris!
im thinkin Faiplex park!!! lol

The clam will stay open and mine took about three days when i started to smell some funk.

That bad huh???
my garage is ac controlled so i think ill try a cpl in a 10 gallon in their!
see how that goes!
if it starts to Funk!!!! theyl ill throw them the funk out!! lol
srry i had too:)
anything else on these guys??
i would like to know as much possible info on them!! info from personal expeience with em!

I wouldnt drink from any lake in socal. Let me guess, you have test strips in your wallet dont ya? lol. Just dont mix them in with any of your fish for a while. Good luck, let me know whats up after a couple of weeks. OH AND BY THE WAY, WHO IN THE I.E. HASNT HAD LAKE PERRIS WATER. AQUAFINA bottles it down the street from there.Hmmmm.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
SERIOUSLY?????? iv never noticed!!!!!!!!
DAM i gotta watch out with that!!
next time they go on sale imma scrtach that!!!! lol
thanx for the heads up!

any 1 else?

I agree if you want to try them do it in a 10g without fish and see how it works out.
Take your test kit and test the lake water and match your water before you get the clams, that will help them from dying on you.
Let us know how it works out.

Any wc experiment can be done in a 10g without any fish, that's how I did my crested goby.

Nice!!Imma c wat ends up happenning!!!
thank you all for ur advice!!! much appreciated:)

and hey wat if i take bout 7gals of the lake water with me?i mean 7 or so Gals of their original water and lik 3 or so new treated water...
just let the filter do the work for a cpl days then de a water change often....u think by doin that they will slowly adapt 2 the better water?
i mean eventually the lake water will be gone from the 10G..........
should i do that for bout a month or so?

I had freshwater clams before. Cichlids tore through their shell.

REALLY!!!!!??????!?!?!?!?!?!
the shell u say......so they wont be safe in a tank with cichlids?

Wouldn't think so. They need to open their mouth to filter, and the mouth looks like meat to a fish so yeah, they are goners

lol ill keep that in mind!!
thanx phil!!

Ya starting them with some lake water should help some.

avoid em.

alan j t wrote:

avoid em.

wat would be ur reason??
every 1 els has shared theirs....plz share urs!
i want to know as much as i can bout these lil buggers:)

I think as a species only tank its a grand experiment!