What is this?

[ZooZ]

Seen this near my clam in the morning. Is he shedding his bypassal organ? He looks alright. Will he be ok?

 

[skinz78]

yes its the old byssal threads being released. Your clam will be fine.

 

[ZooZ]

alright I feel better now. First time Ive experienced this. Just heard of it .

 

[reefturkey]

This same thing happened to me a few weeks ago and freaked me out. The clam looked very healthy the whole time so I figured i'd wait and see. It's fine now.

 

[kdblove_99]

Why does it do this?

 

[skinz78]

The byssal threads are like our hair or fingernails are. The grow so many and this is the clams way of discarding them.