Zebra Mussels for filtration?

[blorbic]

Hi, I was wondering if anyone had any experience keeping zebra mussels in a tank or filter to help clean the water. Would they be ok with severums and clown loaches?

Thanks

 

[sterling_mcdaniel]

zebra mussels are illegal to keep.

 

[le patron]

also this should have gone in inverts

 

[sandtiger]

Yes, as Sterling said zebra mussels are illegal. Admittedly however I did once have some, it was not intentional as some had hitchhiked on some plants I had collected but they did a good job at reproducing and virtually taking over the aquarium, keeping them is not something I would suggest.

 

[sterling_mcdaniel]

Yes, as Sterling said zebra mussels are illegal. Admittedly however I did once have some, it was not intentional as some had hitchhiked on some plants I had collected but they did a good job at reproducing and virtually taking over the aquarium, keeping them is not something I would suggest.

that's it! I'm going to turn you in.





























just kidding

 

[sandtiger]

that's it! I'm going to turn you in.
just kidding

No way, I was just un-banned.

 

[sterling_mcdaniel]

No way, I was just un-banned.

you are a party pooper I had my banhammer ready and every thing.

 

[sykofrenic]

zebra mussel larva are microscopic and when you do water changes, can and will grow in the pipes you dumped the water in, they will clog pipes and break them open eventually all the while spreading theyre larva further down the system. they have even been known to break apart dams from the inside (by growing in pipes, etc)

 

[cassharper]

And also if one of them happens to die while buried in the substrate as they so love to do all that filtering they've been doing just went out the window. You can get other filter feeders, though. For the longest Dr.s Foster smith carried some corbicual sp., but I don't know if they still do.

 

[2004exrider]

zebra mussel larva are microscopic and when you do water changes, can and will grow in the pipes you dumped the water in, they will clog pipes and break them open eventually all the while spreading theyre larva further down the system. they have even been known to break apart dams from the inside (by growing in pipes, etc)

Wow, good point.