Feeding clams

[greggnyce]

What are most of you feeding your clams?

 

[d4a2n0k]

Light and fish waste. Once they get over about 2 1/2" the mantle is large enough to feed off of the zooxanthellae that hosts in them. They need nothing else but good water quality and a good amount of lighting.

 

[teen]

as long as there is nitrogen and phosphorus in the water, clams will be fine on light alone.

if you want to add food to the water,it needs to be zoo/phyto plankton between the sizes of 2 and 200 microns.

i personally dont add anything to the water for my clams.

 

[JCnflies]

I have two clams that seem to be doing very well - especially a miaxima that is starting to look awesome. That is a bit surprising because a few folks thouhgt it might not survive under my T5s. But I add live phyto 3xs per week and, of course, the lighting. For samall clams that have not anchored to anything, some remove the clam and put it in a bowl with phyto to feed it. I have never done it as my smaller clam, the maxima, has its foot locked into the LR.