WOW!..i can find tons of them in a creek near by my house...they dont seem to look any different from that website...I also can find freshwater mussels too! but your rarely see them in the water....keep them in my tank for a year and they survive until a water change went wrong somehow and all of them died...
Freshwater clam??????
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Visit a clam bed sometime. Their life cycle is relatively short and when they die the smell is horrid.
Ive gotten freshwater clams out of the river by my house, not sure if there the exact same as that but they look very close to it. Mostly they are big when i find them so i wouldn't worry about them being eatin though when they die they open up and smell horrible. Ive had a few die and by the time i get to them their insides have gelled out into the water and it stinks bad. If those are the same as the ones i find they get about 9'' wide.
just put lucky bamboo in your sump... NC Nutcase did an experiment using that plant, and it helped out his parameters. etc
I grew up on a lake in western NY and attempted keeping some freshwater mussels. I couldn't get them to last for more than a week or two.
And you have no idea how bad they smell after a day or two dead. It's unreal. I had to drain all the water to get rid of the smell.
Unfortunately I didn't know how to check on their status short of digging them up each day if they were not filtering at the surface of the substrate. Sometimes they remain completely buried for days. Several died buried and I was not aware of it until the water took on a rotten seafood odor.
And you have no idea how bad they smell after a day or two dead. It's unreal. I had to drain all the water to get rid of the smell.
Unfortunately I didn't know how to check on their status short of digging them up each day if they were not filtering at the surface of the substrate. Sometimes they remain completely buried for days. Several died buried and I was not aware of it until the water took on a rotten seafood odor.
i heard they have larvae that are little free swimmers that will cling onto the gills of ur fish.. might wanna look into that.. cuz im pretty sure thats what made me reconsider also..
