Ridiculously cool

[daplatapus]

Ok, this isn't a question but thought I'd share something. And I'm so excited about it it pretty obvious I'm a noob
A friend of mine made on online order but because she was headed in for surgery asked me to receive the order and put it in my tank until she got better. Anyway, she ordered 2 flame scallops. We got them on Thursday, and after acclimating them I put them into my tank. I guess it turns out there are several types of flame scallops and at least one of the ones we got turns out to be an electric flame scallop. Check out the short video I took, sorry about the quality, my little point and shoot didn't like to focus through the glass.

 

[CHG107]

That is awesome! Do you know who your friend ordered these from?

 

[daplatapus]

Yeah, it was a shop in Vancouver, Canada. Not sure if I'm allowed to mention their name on here.

 

[All6Fish]

Very cool, something to look forward to thats for sure.

 

[shifty51008]

as great as these animals are their survival rate in a aquarium is very low i would say at least 95% of them won't make it long. I wish you luck.

 

[daplatapus]

This is what it looks like without the actinic lighting. You can see how bright the arc is on it's mantle even over the flash of the camera.

 

[daplatapus]

as great as these animals are their survival rate in a aquarium is very low i would say at least 95% of them won't make it long. I wish you luck.

Really? What's the main causes? Knowing that might help me and the eventual owner hopefully be in the 5% successful people.

 

[Baboo11]

That's so wild! What a fun surprise!

 

[shifty51008]

here is a good read on them. the problem is that no one really knows the reason they die in tanks, not enough food, to much light, ect.

http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2002/7/inverts

 

[All6Fish]

That was a good article Shifty thanks, gave alot of insight and back ground molluscs.

 

[Jeremy Blaze]

as great as these animals are their survival rate in a aquarium is very low i would say at least 95% of them won't make it long. I wish you luck.

Define long. I have never known of one making it more than 6 motnhs in a home aquarium.

 

[All6Fish]

Exactly what the article explained, it appears 8 - 10 months is the longest they do live in captivity but again according to the article they do not really live long in the wild to begin with, 3 - 4 years. From what i understand it appears to be from lack of proper feeding but there could be other aspects not yet discovered.

 

[rpjaws74]

cool little creature but knowing what I know now I wont get one ! thanks for sharing

 

[SushiGirl]

We've seen those at a local LFS here. Very cool, but definitely won't make it long.

 

[MarkGP]

Kinda freaky!

 

[daplatapus]

Thank you sooo much shifty51008 for that link. It really was a well written article. I do have both phyto and zooplankton that I'll try feeding and I will certainly be sharing the link you gave with the owner of the scallop. Maybe I'll even try my hand at raising some rotifers.
thanks again.

 

[daplatapus]

I just thought I'd update this in case anyone else got any of these. 1 of the scallops has died, but not too sure when as they do bury themselves into the rock work pretty good that most time you'd never even know they were there. But the other is still in his original spot. I can just make out the top of the shell with his mantle showing. Seems to be doing ok but only been in my tank 5 months now.

 

[TexasMike]

Your friend let you keep them or is she still recovering?

 

[daplatapus]

They ended up burying themselves so deep in my rock work it would have been a nightmare getting them out. We both decided to just leave 'em be.

 

[ReefCare4U]

I tried to keep those 20years ago, the kids love them. Too bad they don't last very long. Good luck with the last one! After all these years I'd figure someone would come up with the "secret" to keeping them.