Anyone have golden freshwater clams in there tank.

No sir, but I've never heard a positive story about FW clams from an end-user, only from the stores selling them.
 
i heard that if they die, they will stink up your aquarium cause you wont know if their dead or not since there mostly always closed...
 
ive read somewhere, don't remember where, that they can breed pretty easily in aquariums, and if they do spawn that eggs can become logged in your fishes scales, making it look like ich. they get stuck and from what the story said they don't come out. to bad for the poor angels:(
 
Clam's life cycle goes like this, when a clam releases young clams, the young clams would attach to fishes... preferablly gills where they can get nurtients from the fish by buring themself into fishes until they are mature enough to live on their own so they are "parastic" for a couple of weeks.
I'm not aware of some clams can breed asexually. If they don't, then better to have 1 clam to prevent breeding.
 
I've had 3 of them for about half a year. You mostly never see them except when you're working in the gravel. All three of mine are alive and well as of last week.

Bill :clap:
 
JinxXx0085 said:
Clam's life cycle goes like this, when a clam releases young clams, the young clams would attach to fishes... preferablly gills where they can get nurtients from the fish by buring themself into fishes until they are mature enough to live on their own so they are "parastic" for a couple of weeks.
I'm not aware of some clams can breed asexually. If they don't, then better to have 1 clam to prevent breeding.
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That's untrue - the "golden Asian clam" (Corbicula fluminea) of the aquarium hobby differs from many other freshwater bivalves in that its larvae - hermaphroditically-recruited veligers - are free-living, in contrast to the parasitic glochidea of most freshwater "mussels".

[C. fluminea is also androgenetic - that is, sperm containing the entire paternal genome (rather than just half) enters an egg (here, of the same individual), whereupon it "kicks out" the entire maternal genome; all offspring are thus clones of the "father". In addition, there is preliminary evidence that certain disparate species of this genus are capable of "parasitizing" each others' eggs; the sperm cell of one species, upon entering the egg of another, removes the original DNA, forcing the clam to brood the offspring of another species.]

(http://www.bio.utexas.edu/grad/shedtke/Undergrad.html & http://www.bio.utexas.edu/grad/shedtke/Research.html)

A basic care sheet may be viewed here.

A note - some aquarists place C. fluminea in their wet-dry filters, or against the front plane of their aquaria (often with the aid of a plastic strip, as is sold for substrate terracing).
 
TipStylez said:
i heard that if they die, they will stink up your aquarium cause you wont know if their dead or not since there mostly always closed...
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Actually, it is a fairly straightforward matter to determine whether a clam is alive or dead - deceased specimens exhibit a terminal "gape" from which the innards will loll out. Living clams are, in fact, usually "open", whether siphoning detritus from the water column or utilizing their "feet" to shift position in or crawl about the substrate.
 
Veneer, thanks for correcting me! I love learning something new.
I've also searched for something about this but all I found was "food" stuff. Blah, so I gave up. The link is helpful!
 
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