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Hi everyone,

I just found out my clams had some 1 cm babies(broodlings?), they are all free swimming right now.Kinda awkward since clams don't move much, well the fry moves as fast as tiger barbs. But how they can have babies is kinda strange since I have not kept my clams in the best condition, heck its not even good. I kept my clams in a wet/dry filter all under the media and bio-balls hoping they would clean my water, amazingly they survive very well and even have fry. Fry are happy with their home, amazing how hardy these clams really are.

heres are some of the pics of the clams

http://www.aquabid.com/cgi-bin/auction/auction.cgi?fwinverts&1109397424

Ah. Freshwater clams.

These can be problematic in an aquarium with fish. Some of them have larvae that are secondarily parasitic on fishes. Parasitic stage is known as a Glochidium.

Yours aren't one of these by any chance?

Panda Catfish fan and keeper/breeder since Christmas 2002

i may be wrong (and i really mean wrong), but my understanding of the parasitic life of juvie clams only harms diseased and sickened fish.

i have wanted to buy clams for my tank forever, but have been turned away by the possible parasitic link to fish. some sites claim they kill the host, others say damage only occurs to already sickened fish. the majority of the sites claim healthy fish are really not affected.

does anyone have any real experiance with breeding them? trojan man- any idea where the babies grew? any unexplained fish daths?

I'll post an article on this in due course. Watch this space!

Edit: article is now up ... here it is ...

http://www.fishprofiles.com/files/forums/Invertebrates/55348.html

Last edited by Calilasseia at 24-Feb-2005 09:45

Panda Catfish fan and keeper/breeder since Christmas 2002