hope this helps on how to feed clams

[acrodave]

First you have to get a healty calm to begin with and have lights strong enuff for clams.If you have fish in your tank that will be all the food they will need.Heres a bit out of Knops Giant Clams book
"We have to keep in mind that only a samll percentage in the range of one to two per cent of the food we feed is actually used as a food and the rest eliminated by filtration system most of it by the skimmer.Such a degree of over feeding is unavoidable to obtain the food denisty necessary to satisty the food requirement of all the animals.This over feeding should be kept as small as possible.Corals and clams are adapted to a slow food uptake and therefore a daily but samll amount of food seems to be better than weekly and large doses.Clams do not only take up the food we introduce to this purpose but utilize other matter as well as for example waste products of fishes present in the tank.Altogether the food reqquirements of clams is so samll that a special feeding scheme for them is superfluous if the tank is populatated with a fair number of fish especially if corals are regulary fed.In such a case a special food destined for the clams couls even unbalance the whole system.Another situation however is caused by the symbiotic alage living in the siphonal mantle of the clam.Their population density per square unit is about ten flold in comparison to corals."So in other words no real need to feed them.

 

[rharr21]

Does this apply to juvenile clams? It was my understanding that the smaller clams, say less than three inches, need to be target fed due to a low population of symbiotic alage in the mantel.

 

[jmaneyapanda]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10651097#post10651097 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by rharr21
Does this apply to juvenile clams? It was my understanding that the smaller clams, say less than three inches, need to be target fed due to a low population of symbiotic alage in the mantel.

old wives tale. Bear in mind, that book is comparatively old, but I do not necessarily disgaree with what was said. In an aquarium that hosues fish and other life, there will likely me more than enough suitable particulate food for the clam.

 

[Charlie Davidson]

ditto :thumbsup:
High light, healty,stable tank is the key..

 

[ultra spikey]

I just purchased a clam, hopefully my lighting is good enough(4x54w T5 w/ individual SLR reflectors and 2x65 PC's). Anyway, I've read that some people will take their clam out of the tank and put it in a bowl, then dump some phyto in the bowl to feed the clam. Is this necessary?

 

[acrodave]

no and the clams dont like that

 

[b0bby1]

someone suggested that to me but i was thinking and it just doesnt seem right. stress is what kills the little clams such as temp swings,etc. so putting him in a bowl i think is more stressful than a temp swing.

 

[conorwynne]

What about flow? I keep SPS, so lots of flow, but is it too much for clams? Do they require low flow?

 

[a4twenty]

first of all, you couldn't possibly be batman because i'm batman!!!!!!!!

clams like flow just not direct flow

 

[conorwynne]

Cheers 4 that, now off to work on my bat-bike.

Regards
Conor.