Electric Flame Scallop - anyone ever have one?????

[agoutihead]

my buddy just seen one and said its absolutley ridiculous... i checked out drfostersmith... and it does look really cool.

has anyone ever had one?

 

[mickyfin]

Nope . They die pretty quick.

 

[rustybucket145]

From what I understand you are lucky if you get them to live over a year. And most die relatively quickly in an aquarium. Scallops in general need a good deal of open water to 'swim' around in and a home aquarium is not even close.

 

[pepe.king.prawn]

The general success with these has been poor. The care requirements are the same as for a regular flam scallop. I've seen them in person, and they are AWESOME. To my understanding they are non-photosynthetic so you'll have to feed often. This may entail not running a protein skimmer and feeding things like live phytoplankton. Many bivalves prefer "dirty" water, probably not what you have in your reef tank. Give some thought to it before you make a purchase.

 

[Reefmaniac1]

Forget them. These guys have a short life span in the wild, estimated at not much more than a few years. In a tank, they will usually starve to death due to lack of food: Unlike Tridacna spp clams which can obtain most of their nutritional needs from photosynthesis of their symbiotic zooxanthellae, the scallops have to filter all of their food.

 

[aural]

i've had one for a year. for the first 3-4 months i kept moving him around... it would get itself wedged in a cave and i'd pull it out... finally i got sick of fishing for it and it has been wedged in a cave for 8+ months. its still alive and i dont ever feed it. it must get food from somewhere.

 

[BenH98]

I had one for about 2 months before it died. It wedged itself into a cave and I had no idea where it went... Then out of no where it came out - but the "electric" part had stopped. It eventually died, and now I have 2 shells

 

[Kinetic]

why would you pull them out of their caves? They're looking for a good place to settle down. LOL!

mine settled down right where I could see it, and then the other just under a cave. Been alive for about 3 months so far.

 

[aural]

why would i pull it out? because i wanted to see it. it kept jamming itself out of view. finally i was over it and let it be.

 

[Kinetic]

yeah... you can't help that. they're gonna move to a place they like, just gotta be lucky.

 

[whiteshark]

Mine dissapeared into the rockwork never to been seen again. I assume it died.

 

[Alexj716]

Yeah, don't do it. I had one and it lived for about 3 months. They have a very short life span and it's not worth it. Plus, they smell really bad when they die!

 

[xcreonx]

I've had two living in my refugium for over a year now. My copperband took a liking to them and I yanked 'em and threw them down in the fuge, where they live very happily, i believe. They are definitely growing and a very deep red color. They congregate right where the water drains from the display into the fuge, and there are millions of pods swimming around. So far so good.

That being said, I would not buy another one

 

[JENnKerry]

Ours lasted a little over a year. Was doing great but then the wife and I moved into our new home. It didn't survive the move.

 

[HartfordWhalers]

My brother has one in his 55. Its been living for around 3 months and it looks to be fine. Its really cool.

 

[cbicop]

I had one. It was beautiful and fun to watch. I had him in my 12 gallon jbj nano at work. One weekend my glass heater decided to break and short curcuit the surge protector... all pumps and lights off for the weekend. I not only lost the scallop but everything in that tank... right down to copapods and bacteria.... gone. Blasted bristles didnt even make it. There was soo many dead pods in the tank that it looked like I dumped an entire pack of mysis shrimp in the tank. Made me sick.