Asian Clams

Man, that stinks!  Sorry to hear that.  Did you not have access to a big bottle of dechlor? Chlorine is neutralized very rapidly.  Always handy to have a bottle or two of the stuff around.  

I once didn't add enough dechlor to a tank when doing a large water change.  The chlorine levels were low enough that any effects weren't immediately seen, but my wife stumbled across the tank a couple hours later after nearly half the fish were dead.  After I rammed my head into the brick wall, I threw in a bunch of amquel and saved the rest.

Sounds like your chubs were building a nest out of the only materials they had available.  Pretty cool.  Time to start again.

You know, I bet an artist could get a lot of supplies from a muskrat midden, with all those shells. Might not want to get right down there, but a pool net could probably scoop a bunch of shells up. I doubt the rat needs them.

Man, that stinks!  Sorry to hear that.  Did you not have access to a big bottle of dechlor? Chlorine is neutralized very rapidly.  Always handy to have a bottle or two of the stuff around.  

 

I once didn't add enough dechlor to a tank when doing a large water change.  The chlorine levels were low enough that any effects weren't immediately seen, but my wife stumbled across the tank a couple hours later after nearly half the fish were dead.  After I rammed my head into the brick wall, I threw in a bunch of amquel and saved the rest.

Sounds like your chubs were building a nest out of the only materials they had available.  Pretty cool.  Time to start again.

You would think after 50 years of fish keeping such disasters would be in the distant past, not true! 

I was not really surprised to find so many live clams still in the sand, I have always had good luck with those clams, could be because most of my tanks have a good layer of mulm on the bottom... 

I started cleaning out the sand today, I found that not only do i have a thriving population of asian clams but they somehow survived the clorox treatment, I guess they dug in deep. I still think some of the fish were killing the clams but i can't show any evidence of it. The clams that are left are nice and strong, seem to be healthy, quick to dig back into the sand when dug up. I am thinking of simply doing a partial water change and setting the talk back up mulm and all...   Those are the from the same batch i added some 6 months ago BTW... 

I agree with Matt

Also, don't get offended. I got jumped on to when I first started with natives for bringing home empty shells to use for decor. While that's not illegal, the point is you can't prove if you brought them home dead or alive.

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Coming in extremely late here, like 7 YEARS late. In Ohio, from what I have read, even collecting the empty shells of mussels and clams is illegal. It is even illegal to collect live Asian clams that are in the wild. My assumption of this is because they don't want them spread even further. I wanted mussels or clams for my tank at one time, but from my interpretation of the laws, every bivalve in Ohio is protected. You don't want to get messed up in legal ramifications of this issue, you don't want to inadvertently capture and remove a threatened or endangered specie, and you don't want to move and propagate an invasive specie.

I suppose that if I really wanted a bivalve for my tank, I'd go to the seafood market and buy a bag of live cherrystone clams or the bagged mussels that are farm raised. That way you eliminate the risks altogether.

Grumpy Old Man out and back under my rock.

Coming in extremely late here, like 7 YEARS late. In Ohio, from what I have read, even collecting the empty shells of mussels and clams is illegal. It is even illegal to collect live Asian clams that are in the wild. My assumption of this is because they don't want them spread even further. I wanted mussels or clams for my tank at one time, but from my interpretation of the laws, every bivalve in Ohio is protected. You don't want to get messed up in legal ramifications of this issue, you don't want to inadvertently capture and remove a threatened or endangered specie, and you don't want to move and propagate an invasive specie.

 

I suppose that if I really wanted a bivalve for my tank, I'd go to the seafood market and buy a bag of live cherrystone clams or the bagged mussels that are farm raised. That way you eliminate the risks altogether.

 

Grumpy Old Man out and back under my rock.

Clams from a seafood market would probably be saltwater clams. I have, of late, found some mussels for sale in pet shops meant for koi ponds. They were labeled Asian mussels, they were the same color as the Asian clams.