Fingernail clams

[knifegill]

Anybody feeding these to your fish? To plecos?

http://cubbysaquatics.com/2018/01/15/fingernail-clam-species-profile/

https://goliadfarms.com/fingernail-clams-sphaerium-corneum/

https://goliadfarms.com/update-on-fingernail-clams-sphaerium-corneum/

 

[knifegill]

As for the parasites, would freezing take care of that?

ne concern I have which was caused by this statement USGS made, “S. corneum hosts such digenean species as Crepidostomum transmarinum, Bunodera lucipercae, and Phyllodistomum simile in North America.” This made me do some more research.

It turns out that all three are parasitic worms requiring two alternating hosts, a mollusk (snail, clam, oyster, etc.) and a vertebrate (you, me, or fish). Wikipedia summarizes them well, “Digenea (Gr. Dis – double, Genos – race) is a subclass within the Platyhelminthes consisting of parasitic flatworms with a syncytial tegument and, usually, two suckers, one ventral and one oral. Adults are particularly common in the digestive tract, but occur throughout the organ systems of all classes of vertebrates.”

from https://goliadfarms.com/update-on-fingernail-clams-sphaerium-corneum/

 

[Deadliestviper7]

As for the parasites, would freezing take care of that?


from https://goliadfarms.com/update-on-fingernail-clams-sphaerium-corneum/

I imagine if you froze them for a couple weeks there would be very few parasites, this would definitely be a interesting diet for mollusk eaters such as redear sunfish, sturgeon, freshwater drum, young blue cats and certain puffers.