small ocean clams in tank

[nikski9098]

i just returned from San Diego and i brought back on the plane with me, a 6 inch piece of kelp, some other small bunch of a kind of dark red plant that was floating and many small clams that hang in the sand where the water reaches the shore, and they have little like grass or something growing from them......anyways, they all made the trip and i was wondering if itd be a bad idea to put them in my tank......?? anyone ever done this before....?? i have them in my quarintine tank hanging out........

 

[Sk8r]

Don't put them in your main tank. And if your qt has ever had copper in it, they will not live. Hate to be negative, but the biomass involved here would tend to crash all at once, which could take out your tank, and it might import some organism that could be bad news in a tank...it's just a little too much nature for our protected glass worlds. If it lives in there a lengthy period of time, you might consider some of it, but be careful. A clam parasite getting loose among hobbyists would not be a good thing. Likewise some other new kind of species-predator.

 

[nikski9098]

my quarintine tank is actually a nano cube that i just have some rock in, and not much else, 2 or 3 snails....ive never put copper in it and i can understand bringing somthing else into the tank from the ocean would and could be disaterous as ive read b4 on here and have been warned, but i will keep a close eye on them all, they are all still alive and burying themselves leaving their little "bush" things sticking out of the sand...

 

[nikski9098]

so no one youve heard of has found a crab, little starfish, clam, small coral found diving ect and\or put them in their tank?? doesn't the live rock, and many small critters come from the ocean to the LPS to us? all of it surely cannot be