cleaner clams
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airforceb2
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How high is high? Do you have a skimmer? How often are your water changes...and what kind of water do you use?
mudplayerx
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Go to the grocery store and buy some cherry clams on ice for around 50 cents. Put them in a bucket of saltwater when you get home and wait for them to spit out some dirty water. After they do this, they are safe to add to your tank and you have just saved a bunch of money 
fishymom
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gee-thanks for the tip. I will go out tomorrow and see if I can find them. The cherry clams are the same as the cleaner clams they have on this site? I know this sounds really dumb, but I stir my sand by hand and if the clams hide in the sand and if I touch them will they bite?
airforceb2
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Why do you stir your sand? Doesn't that break up all the bacteria colonies extablished in the sand?
keonia
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Originally Posted by mudplayerx
Go to the grocery store and buy some cherry clams on ice for around 50 cents. Put them in a bucket of saltwater when you get home and wait for them to spit out some dirty water. After they do this, they are safe to add to your tank and you have just saved a bunch of money
Hey Mud,
When I got the clam, I swear it looked like the ones we eat!!! Have you tried this or have you heard about this in expensive way to get clams?
Fishy, the clams don't really look as if they bite. They actually snap shut really quick with any noise or movement near them. If anything, it would snap shut and if your hands are really near by, they may get caught. They don't -- well at least mine doesnt open big enough to put a pinky in it!
Let me know if Muds technique work. If I was in Hawaii, I can go to the market and get some, can't find much in LExington!!
Keonia
Go to the grocery store and buy some cherry clams on ice for around 50 cents. Put them in a bucket of saltwater when you get home and wait for them to spit out some dirty water. After they do this, they are safe to add to your tank and you have just saved a bunch of money
Hey Mud,
When I got the clam, I swear it looked like the ones we eat!!! Have you tried this or have you heard about this in expensive way to get clams?
Fishy, the clams don't really look as if they bite. They actually snap shut really quick with any noise or movement near them. If anything, it would snap shut and if your hands are really near by, they may get caught. They don't -- well at least mine doesnt open big enough to put a pinky in it!
Let me know if Muds technique work. If I was in Hawaii, I can go to the market and get some, can't find much in LExington!!
Keonia
mudplayerx
Active Member
There is a thread somewhere on this site about people who have done it. I'm talking about like 7 or 8 people who have done it, even the sharks. Trust me, it works
snailheave
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so... do you have an inexpensive way of reducing phosphate too?
darth tang
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I have done what mud is describing. I actually have had one of the "cleaner" clams for about a year now.