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08-02-2005, 04:41 PM
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| Super Fish  Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Seattle, Washington
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|  Clams! I now am the proud owner of 2 freashwater clams! (Corbicual sp.) There were really cool while they were aclimlimating as they were visble, but now there buried in the substrate! 
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08-02-2005, 04:49 PM
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| Super Fish  Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Nottingham, UK
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|  cool, i was going to ask if you could get any pics, but i guess not. lol 
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08-03-2005, 06:50 PM
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| Super Fish  Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Arizona
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| i heard that the larva are parisitic is this true
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08-03-2005, 06:59 PM
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| Super Fish  Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: middletown, CT
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| i had some asian clams (Corbicula fluminea) that i took from a local stream but they didn't fare well. they survived i think for .. mm.. 3 weeks or so before they all died.. probably because my tank isn't "dirty" enough for them to filter feed. but they are definitly cool to watch while htey're alive!! 
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08-03-2005, 07:10 PM
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| Super Fish  Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: San Antonio, Texas
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| ya thats why most people dont have too much succes with filter feeders cause the water is just way to clean. Things like clams, bamboo shrimp, and baby ghost shrimp need food in the water to survive but filters usualy outcompete them. I think some clams do have a parasitic stage but i think the asian ones don't. I'm not saying its impossible just gotta keep your water dirtier  |
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08-03-2005, 08:10 PM
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| Super Fish Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: middletown, CT
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| you can also try using an eye dropper to "feed" the clams with oyster eggs or some other food meant for corals. you can ask the salties what they have success with.
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