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I love a diverse aquarium.
I would like to know if I can have freshwater clams but have not found ANY info on requirements and capatability. SO here is what i have:
a 20 gallon freshwater aquatium
ordinary medium gravel
dwarf gourami
simese fighting fish
bumblebee goby
glowlight tetra's
peppered cory
ghost shrimp
apple snail
zebra snail
so is it possible? what do i do with them?

It would be fine in your tank, but they are pretty much the most useless animals in the hobby. Once you get them, they just dig down into the gravel and stay there. You pretty much never see them unless you go dig them out.

Also, they are filter feeders and need suspended particles in their water to feed.

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I'm not your neighbor, you Bakersfield trash.

The fish won't matter so long as you don't have any large cichlids that might want to smash them open or loaches that will harass them. What matters is water movement and food source. They don't move to find food so they need good water movement to bring the food to them and they need small particles of food in the water. If you feed crushed up flakes, shrimp pellets, or other foods that can break down into small particles they should be fine. If you food solid pellets or something like New Life Spectrum they will starve. You can target feed them by using an eye dropper or similar to squirt small particles of food in front of them every few days. They will also die off if you use any medicines at all. That includes melafix and pimafix.

Thanks guys. sounds like clams, although biologically facinating, are not worth the hassel. I like to watch fish interaction and movement so clams are not for me.

They are really interesting when you first throw them in but after that you forget they are there. They find a spot to sit and don't move again. Which is how I killed mine off by accident I managed to keep the population stable for over a year but then I forgot to remove them when I medicated the tank. All these shells started appearing on top of the substrate and when I took the tank down to move it I found no live clams. Now I have about 50 gold clam shells I'm wondering what to do with.

one or two won't hurt, i love my mussels and they are utterly useless too


For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks. - Terry Pratchett

by the way mumblebee gobies are brackish fish. they do a hek of a lot better in brackish tank anyways.