scallops

[L8 2 RISE]

Why are there so few people that keep scallops? Do they do anything to the aquarium or what? I read up real quickly on a couple of websites and found nothing to suggest that they couldn't be kept with this or that, but if that were the case, I just figured more people would have them .

[lanman]

Why are there so few people that keep scallops? Do they do anything to the aquarium or what? I read up real quickly on a couple of websites and found nothing to suggest that they couldn't be kept with this or that, but if that were the case, I just figured more people would have them .

 

I don't know much about them... the 'flame' scallops supposedly lose their flame after a while in captivity. Other than that, I don't know why people don't have them.

 

bob

[Sikryd]

SeaSave had a couple blue eyes, but when I was going pick one up he only had one left that he was saving to show kids since it squirts water out when you take it out of the water.

[Freezerburn]

The typical outcome is they die within a few months without proper feeding I stole this quote from another forum.

 

 

I'm going to guess that you are talking about "flashing" scallops, Lima scabra. Although these animals are called "scallops" they are not related to scallops by anything other than appearance, and are really file clams{scallops swim "forwards" while clams swim "backwards"}. Their care is identical to that of the flame scallops. In laboratory experiments, researchers found that plastic beads of the size of phytoplankton{5-10 microns} were ingested at the same rate as the phytoplankton themselves, but beads the size of invertebrate larvae{100-200micron} were rejected by the clams. Unlike most studies of invertebrate filter-feeding, addition of phytoplankton to the medium did not affect bead ingestion rate, and in this case, the animals actually seem capable of selecting particles directly by their surface flavor {which is why pea flour and yeast-based aquarium products probably fail at keeping these animals alive}. The primary prey of the animals were invertebrate larvae, and ~75% of larvae were consumed in a given trial. A good diet of mixed phytoplankton and enriched rotifers ought to be appropriate for keeping these animals, but I would suggest staying away from the typical aquarium "invert foods"