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Fish and Aquariums question: What could you feed your pet clams? Keeping Pet Clams Fed and Happy Clams cannot exist on their own - what we think of as just a clam is actually a compact body that lives ... Catch a clam? Waht do pet clams eat? What do clams feed on? Do clams make pearles? Can a clam eat fishfood?
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Clams feed upon plankton through a double-tubed siphon which operates like a snorkel. The siphon serves to obtain food and eliminate waste products. In-flowing water is pumped through the siphon, passed over the gills and strained to remove food particles.
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Clams, such as the northern quahog, are bivalves, meaning that they have shells consisting of two halves, or valves. The valves are joined at the top, and the adductor muscles on each side hold the shell closed. ... Clams, such as the northern quahog, are filter feeders. Water and food particles are drawn in through one...
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His spicy tagliolini ($19) is exemplary, the skinny, slightly chewy pasta ribbons providing a simple foil for plump, sweet, subtly briny Wellfleet clams, a few piquant grape tomatoes, and a studiously plain, brothy sauce of white wine, garlic, fresh basil, and fresh parsley. ... About Feed...
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True clams, in the strict sense, are bivalves with equal shells closed by two adductor muscles situated at opposite ends of the shell, and with a powerful, muscular, burrowing foot. Clams characteristically lie buried from just beneath the surface to depths of about 0.6 m (2 feet).
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This is the product of approximately one year of keeping clams, as well as one year of reading every article, newsgroup post, and book that I could get my ... Question: If clams are in nature filter feeders, can you feed clams in your aquarium? If so, what would be a good food and how do you go about feeding them?
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The semi-diagrammatic illustration at the left is taken from Lankester's detailed pencil drawing done in the last century. It shows a dense arrangement of gill filaments, which in clams like the Venus clam here shown are grouped into simila...
http://shells.tricity.wsu.edu/ArcherdShellCollection/Il...
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The clams feed on respices and excretes wastes through its neck through two tubes or siphons. Some of the siphons draw in water with food and oxggen and the other expels wastes of the shell.
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www.k12.nf.ca/lakeacademy/Students/Grade5/Grade%205M/cl...
www.k12.nf.ca/lakeacademy/Students/Grade5/Grade%205M/clamrd.htm
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I keep (or kept, I don't know if I have any at the moment) clams only in unfiltered tanks. They feed on plankton and detritus and they seem to be very good at filtering those things out of the water. I have never tried feeding them otherwise and I don't have any reason to believe that they are starving.
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www.thekrib.com/Fish/clams.html
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