Sid
Premium Member
i wondered if it was possible to captive breed clams so i went in search of info but there is one stage in the rearing that seems a bit brutal, the part that i am refering to is putting a clam into a food blender!.
apparently the developing clams do not inherit zooxanthellae from their parents, what you have to do is when they are a few days old get a healthy clam, cut it out of its shell, put in a blender, sieve the result and add the remaining liquid to the cultering pool and they pick it up from the water.
is this really the only way, how does this work in the wild?, isnt there some substitute (zooxanthellae in a can?).
any information on this would be helpfull because if this is the case i dont really want to try it.
apparently the developing clams do not inherit zooxanthellae from their parents, what you have to do is when they are a few days old get a healthy clam, cut it out of its shell, put in a blender, sieve the result and add the remaining liquid to the cultering pool and they pick it up from the water.
is this really the only way, how does this work in the wild?, isnt there some substitute (zooxanthellae in a can?).
any information on this would be helpfull because if this is the case i dont really want to try it.