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mour - 7 years ago

At least add some music :/

Kevin Vang - 7 years ago

What do they eat?

TRUTH NO LIES - 7 years ago

such a sluggish animal

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Kithro Games - 7 years ago

It's digging it's grave

john kirby - 7 years ago

Fascinating video , keep them coming !

TrasherBiner - 7 years ago

Truly fascinating thank you for recording and uploading.

Alex Hohstadt - 7 years ago

It's like "get me away from all these annoying fish" hahaha

Burrito Destroyer 9000 - 8 years ago

Can you tell me where you got this?

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Sunsun Moo Moo - 8 years ago

Do they pop? If they do, you should record it o-o

Christian Monach - 8 years ago

What did i just watch

Marty Lynchian - 8 years ago

I paid like $12 for a bunch of freshwater claims. They do absolutely nothing. I would advise other against it.

Hailey Rain Mathers - 7 years ago

Marty Lynchian what can the eat?

Marty Lynchian - 7 years ago

My Aquarium plants grew faster than the clams moved. It would not even open or anything. I asked in a forum that deals with plants and fish and everyone said that clams are strongly discouraged. You have a time lapse camera you need something to try it out on or something?

Günter TV - 7 years ago

interessting

Günter TV - 7 years ago

Clams are very interseting animals if you do a bit of research and know how to keep them.
It may not loock, like they are doing much, but they constantly do something.

Marty Lynchian - 7 years ago

Why? They are the most boring think I have ever seen in my aquarium. Even the plants are more entertaining then the clams were. Maybe salt water clams are better. I would advise against clams in an Aquarium.

Günter TV - 7 years ago

they eat plantonic food. I think you know what plantonic means. There is a small amount of plantonic food in aquarium water, but to keep them healthy for a long time, this just isn't enough. You have to feed plantonic suspendet food, like liquizel, milk, yeast, plant powder, algea powder and special clam food. The plantonic food isn not dissolved but suspendat. I#m planing on setting up a clam tank in the future

Marty Lynchian - 7 years ago

There is not naturally dissolved organics in the water they can filter out?

Günter TV - 7 years ago

First of all you should get information on your animals before you get them! Clams only survive in ponds without you feeding them. If you keep them in a aqaurium you need to give them something they can filtrate out of the water

Marty Lynchian - 7 years ago

I did not do any of that. I thought they were filter feeders and automatically could pull things out of the aquarium water. Did not have much of a filter in the tank at that time, just a air stone and a sponge filter for mostly biological filtration. I did place a large air stone near the claims so it would create a gentle water flow and circulate the aquarium water near them. I did have like 25 red cherry shrimp in the tank that I would feed flakes and pellets too. Maybe the shrimp ate all the food in the tank? I thought the claims would eat more of the microscopic organic partials suspended in the tank.

Also, maybe they needed sand and I had Eco-complete in the tank. Maybe they did not like the eco-complete. They never really moved from where I put them however the claim shell stayed closed for many months before they open( which means they are dead)

It was a bad experience all way round.

Günter TV - 7 years ago

how did you feed them? You know, that they need special suspended food with a small amount of flow, while you have to keep enough distance to them so they don't get scared, while you gentely blow the food suspension into their mouth.

Marty Lynchian - 7 years ago

Yes, they all died. Never did much. The claim in this video does 100 times more than the ones in my tank. For all I know, they were dead when I got them. I paid a lot for them too.

Marty Lynchian - 7 years ago

LOL, I am everywhere.

Günter TV - 7 years ago

if you would have done some research on clams you would have known, that they don't do much. They are all dead now right?

HNTR KLLR - 7 years ago

marty you sure get around bro: i just saw you trollin some bitches about race relations on a completely unrelated video not 2 weeks ago

small world

The Pink One - 7 years ago

+TMuhC Reverse
You can find them at like any shallow freshwater river

Wal Nuts - 7 years ago

The Pink One shut up. You are lucky to live somewhere that has free clams. Stop boasting. Jeez.

Akshay Kumar - 8 years ago

savage

The Pink One - 8 years ago

There honestly not that bad

Marty Lynchian - 8 years ago

+The Pink One Monster!!!

The Pink One - 8 years ago

I paid $0, I went canoeing and got about 30 clams, (I ate 20).

patzy studio - 8 years ago

clam huh luk at dat gurl
girl shut up im fliming a vid
clam im leaving lol

patzy studio - 8 years ago

Girls gonna eat dico

Micayla Wheaton - 8 years ago

lol fr tho

Nunya Business - 8 years ago

All the faces were palmed that day

Güven Kaya - 8 years ago

Hello, is this a asian clam? if its not can you tell what Kind of clam is that? great footage btw, regards.

Herk Jel - 8 years ago

i think it is

Ewa Myhrén - 8 years ago

fun pet not really

SnoopyDoo - 9 years ago

Just slide the video player's progress indicator from left to right to watch the whole thing unfold in a second.

Takaji The book - 9 years ago

So like...are clams alive?

GerryTGM // The Golden Minecart - 8 years ago

The insides of the clams are:)

Nunya Business - 8 years ago

We don't know how they are, they don't have a brain, but yeah, they are

Jesse Jones - 8 years ago

of course not

duh

AnimalLover - 9 years ago

Will the Freshwater Clam eat fish poop? Please reply as soon as possible.

Bat Shit Lazy - 8 years ago

+Wolfhair

Shane's Trains57 - 8 years ago

+AnimalLover Sorry not a vet.

Shane's Trains57 - 8 years ago

+AnimalLover How?

AnimalLover - 9 years ago

+Wolfhair
If the clam opens it's mouth too much it will die you dip twit.

Wolfhair - 9 years ago

Sure it will, well i gguess i better hurry and go get me some of these clams so it can swallow my penis. The only action i ever got with my penis was when i fucked my dad in his asshole, i'm sure those clams can do beetter. Here, clam! Come to Daddy!

AnimalLover - 9 years ago

+Wolfhair
It will eat a dick.

Wolfhair - 9 years ago

it will eat a vagina.

Dennis - 9 years ago

So much guppie breeds

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chantelle obba - 9 years ago

yummy

ADKIc3mAnXYT - 8 years ago

Eww.

Jess MacDougall - 9 years ago

Where did you get it

The Pink One - 8 years ago

they are free at low level rivers

Technoplex - 9 years ago

Thanks :)

AnimalLover - 9 years ago

+Amy Neidlinger
That's awesome!

Technoplex - 9 years ago

thanks! I ordered a few :)

AnimalLover - 9 years ago

+Amy Neidlinger
http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=1075+1642&pcatid=1642

Technoplex - 9 years ago

Ok thanks!

AnimalLover - 9 years ago

I can give you the link to LiveAquaria.+Amy Neidlinger

Technoplex - 9 years ago

ikr

AnimalLover - 9 years ago

+Amy Neidlinger
Whoa that's a lot.

Technoplex - 9 years ago

+AnimalLover Whoa on Ebay they are 100 dollars for 5 clams!

AnimalLover - 9 years ago

+Jess MacDougall You can get them from LiveAquaria, they are $3.99.

Alaina R - 9 years ago

This is weird and pointless.

~OnlyItalian~ - 10 years ago

where did you buy this ?

Plain Vids - 8 years ago

Are you referring to me?

Ridge - 8 years ago

An obvious typo, moron. Can't believe you were too stupid to know that.

Plain Vids - 8 years ago

How is it local if it's private dipshit?

AnimalLover - 9 years ago

+RidgeHatrick
Plus you can go to your local private fish store.

Ridge - 9 years ago

+~OnlyItalian~ You can also get them online and have them shipped to you. I sell them for about 15 bucks for 10 of assorted sizes. They can be shipped without an issue since they can go underwater for a week+.

AnimalLover - 9 years ago

+~OnlyItalian~ You can get them from LiveAquaria, they are $3.99.

Shufflinz - 10 years ago

Sosina Hailu - 10 years ago

it would be a troll if the guy pulls the Clam so he would have to do it again

The Pink One - 8 years ago

that's terrible XD

Thiago Barreto - 10 years ago

Thanks, man. This video helped me a lot.

Hunterz stew - 10 years ago

Why would someone own a clam. It's just. There. Docent do anything. Just burrows in the sand and sits there like a rock. Then dies. I caught 9 of those alive in the lake. Look for them there if you want one

Dylan Vlogs - 7 years ago

Hey smarty clams are like living filters and keep the tank nice and clean

Ridge - 7 years ago

That is only potential** diseases. As for that, you place them in another tank with just water, or a bowl, and wait for them to "burp" up their sediment before putting them in the tank you intend for them.

Drew Meier - 7 years ago

wild ones have diseases for your tank. also they filter the water which makes the water clearer and cleaner

Plain Vids - 8 years ago

Woah, we got a badass over here!

Embered Eel - 8 years ago

ikr

Jesse Jones - 8 years ago

+AnimalLover ha worst comeback ever

Embered Eel - 8 years ago

+AnimalLover
Well, first learn how to spell if you are talking about the purple dinosaur Barney. ''facepalm''.

AnimalLover - 9 years ago

+RidgeHatrick
Awe so cute! In my world you are called " A fat ass Barny."

Ridge - 9 years ago

Lmfao. You know... we have a word for you in my world. "Carebear".
:)

AnimalLover - 9 years ago

+RidgeHatrick
If you want, go have seizures and become paralyzed by eating clams. It's your choice to die or not. I won't ,stop you.

Ridge - 9 years ago

+AnimalLover You're accepting incorrect hype. ANYTHING can have something that makes it dangerous to eat. Just because one has a chance, doesn't mean we stop eating it. You still eat beef and chicken, don't you? Eating clams is fine. The only thing you want to worry about is where they're from, because they often carry the taste of where they were "filtering". Id est... clams from really muddy places/waters will have a sort of mud taste. The best ones are from gravel streams... because they don't exactly taste like rock. Haha. :P

Ridge - 9 years ago

+Mike Liberty Yes... many people try to avoid them because you need to collect a lot of them to actually make a meal, since they're small.

Ridge - 9 years ago

+Sam Hunt Not true. Some can, but the majority are healthy and do fine in tanks. I sell natural freshwater clams. They're typically good to go.

AnimalLover - 9 years ago

+Mike Liberty No problem.

Mike Liberty - 9 years ago

+AnimalLover thanks

AnimalLover - 9 years ago

+Mike Liberty No. I LOVED to eat clams, but they recently found out that since clams filter feed they can eat bad stuff that can make you sick and sometimes so sick that you can die.

Mike Liberty - 9 years ago

+Hunterz stew can we eat fresh water clams?

PopcornJPG - 9 years ago

+Derek Wu There are huge downsides to it though. If a clam dies overnight there will be a HUGE ammonia spike. And 1 clam for a large tank won't make much of a difference and certainly isn't worth the risk.

Derek Wu - 10 years ago

The clam acts as a natural filter system.

Sam Hunt - 10 years ago

Nope, the ones in the wild possess disease and are not supposed to be in a tank.

systemdeadlock - 10 years ago

Lol too bad substrate was only so thick

Marek Š - 10 years ago

Completely amazing, also alot of pretty fishes ;)

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idkwhatfor20 - 10 years ago

maybe u shoud try putting real sand that way it could b adapting to its type of environment

Mohamed Deyaa - 10 years ago

That's salt water not fresh

Alisa Rain - 8 years ago

Lmao never heard of saltwater guppies

Michael Standridge - 10 years ago

That's freshwater. Look at the fish.

Rec0128 - 10 years ago

I love saltwater guppies.

CatandFriends1 - 11 years ago

we caught a bunch of these guys in a lake... wild ones have interesting patterns on their shells

kodili101 - 11 years ago

it looks like it's dieing...

atem bird - 11 years ago

u ruind clams 4 me

WorldofNene - 11 years ago

wow what is it doing?

nothadnotbad - 11 years ago

very interesting concept for a video. thanks for sharing this with us.

Nitrxgen - 11 years ago

The video is 9:26 long... or 566 seconds. It's sped up times 12 apparently, so original time would be 6792 seconds long... or 1 hour, 53 minutes, and 12 seconds.

dustin dailey - 11 years ago

put googly eyes on it

217pat - 11 years ago

how long did that take! lol :)

G As - 11 years ago

How did I get here?

rayfromnorthriI - 12 years ago

It is not a tong, but it is the mussels foot and is the part of the tissue that allows it to burrow into the sediments and to move around.

rayfromnorthriI - 12 years ago

If the clam is not moving or if it is open and does not respond when you touch it or makes no attempt to close after you have touched it then most likely it is dead.

rayfromnorthriI - 12 years ago

Dazzle, Look up the woed asian clams or corbicula on the internet and if they look like those kinds of clams then they are considered invasive and many states have laws on the books saying it is illeagle for aquarium stores to sell them. Look up your states laws about selling asian clams. Also most native mussels/clams will have a darkish exterior to them or they will have green stripes or blotches of green. Most native freshwater mussels are much longer and bigger than the asian clams.

rayfromnorthriI - 12 years ago

Yes it is and it looks like a Ligumia nasuta species that is rare and uncommon in many states....!

KaiserGray94 - 8 years ago

It looks like, the Golden Freshwater mussel, members of the Ligumia genus have different shell ridges and are much more darker. This is probably a member of the Pilsbryoconcha genus as they are the more common freshwater mussel species in aquarium trade(probably because they are one of the few freshwater mussel genera not endangered.)

rayfromnorthriI - 12 years ago

Also all tanks have a filtration system that is designed to filter out all particulet material that is found in the water constantly. So if there were any phyto plankton in the water to begin with it would of been filtered out a long time before you placed any mussel IN your aquarium.... So I sincerely doubt there was any plankton in a tank to begin with for a store bought mussel or clam to feed on to begin with. Once they are placed in a tank they slowly starve to death....

rayfromnorthriI - 12 years ago

Clams, mussels and oysters need laerge volume of phytoplankton to feed on to survive. The typical aquarium is just does Not equiped to provide the amount of plankton they need to survive. Even a small clam can filter about 1 quart of water in one hour... if you have a 10 gallon tank, then that is 40 quarts of water. so in 40 hours one clam or mussels could filter all the water in that tank. so once they have do so there is no more plankton for it to feed on.

rayfromnorthriI - 12 years ago

Mechanical, this has been documented that pet store often sell items that are illeagel in some cases and in other cases they sell things Just to make a profit from something. Even if the item they are selling clams and mussels cannot possibly live long term in an aquarium. Often things bought on e-bay they may be selling something that is in direct violation to that states environmental laws or to recieve them in your state may be a violation of Your states environmental laws.

bluemanjoe04 - 12 years ago

all i read was blah blah blah i'm a dirty slut

Rabbitboy921 - 12 years ago

3:00 looks like a mongo seed

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Mick Rumping - 12 years ago

Don't click on it then

Good Guy - 12 years ago

If you got a dirty tank, they will get the job done. But if you have a really clean tank they will slowly die of starvation

Bailey D - 12 years ago

cool! but what do they do for the tank? or do they do nothing for it Just look cool and lick sand???

Pedro Marques - 12 years ago

Now check 'clown loach clicking' ;)

Poodleinacan - 12 years ago

Indeed, I was surprised.

Pedro Marques - 12 years ago

search for 'sleeping clown loach' on youtube, you will be surprised.

diablo200 - 12 years ago

So how long was this time lapse?

Poodleinacan - 12 years ago

Wow, fishes really do sleep!

worthlessProtoplasm - 12 years ago

Clams can move :O!!!!!! XD

HERBLANDZ - 12 years ago

who would win a race?A turtle on land or a clam anywhere?

cazuluc - 12 years ago

0:15 "GOD DAMN IT! IT'S COLD!"

iliketoontown - 12 years ago

Ewwwww was it pooping in the beginning? I couldn't watch all of it Lol

ugirl2 - 12 years ago

strong clam.

rufus wellington - 12 years ago

It didn't even completely bury itself what are you watching this for?

rufus wellington - 12 years ago

Bro ate a clam and it taste good.

WingRaah - 12 years ago

He's poking his tongue out at you :3

515655f - 12 years ago

muscle not clam

eszkokosik - 12 years ago

Pretty cool.Beautiful guppies,too! I just got one of these clams,but so far it is just laying there.

MechanicalTaco1 - 12 years ago

@rayfromnorthriI You can get pet clams at some pet stores,I,ve seen some at a pet store in Mo

chemio cremblac - 12 years ago

i did XD

1800savealife - 12 years ago

That awkward moment when the clam realizes its only 2 inches of sand

OriginalKills clan - 12 years ago

Im in that part of youtube again.

rayfromnorthriI - 12 years ago

If you calm or frehswater mussels has not done so already it will die in your tank because the fish tank cannot generate enough algae for the mussels/clam to feed on. You should put the mussel back into the lake or river where you found it... Also many states have mussels that are rare or endangered species and unless you are traied to identify them you could easly kill an endangered species by putting it itno a tank like this. Mussle are filter feedes and need lakes to live in....

rayfromnorthriI - 12 years ago

You should release this clam/freshwater mussels back into the wild...! Many states ahve rare and endangered species of mussels and unless you know how to ID them you would not know one species from another....! Mussels need algae to live on and they filter the water inorder to feed on the algae. Your tank is not set up to be able to generate enough algae to stay alive. If it has not died alread it will starve to death because of the lack of algae to feed on....

Jake Wilson - 12 years ago

hey toretto, where did u find this clam , i want to get a pet clam, how did u dig him up?

Eloise Hawkes - 12 years ago

What is that wite stuff

Charles Taylor - 12 years ago

nice clam

6huggy9 - 12 years ago

Omfg I can not believe we were that drunk an talkin about clams that led us to this video !!!! Hahaha lmfao!!!!

suicune690 - 12 years ago

Is this a unionid clam?

Swell Times - 12 years ago

if you have a planted aquarium. dont get these mofos. mine screwed my tank up. i bought a clam to help filter the water naturally and it looked nice in the tank.. i had the entire bed of my tank covered in dwarf baby tears. then my stupid clam dug holes everywhere. i had to through the bastard into my pond outside.

Galen Schultz - 12 years ago

Ah the life of the clam...

TotRevalution - 13 years ago

he keeps biting his tongue D:

Dillon Neighbors - 13 years ago

@scalecrawler08 not a whole lot but mussels for one have ovular shells that are normaly darker and most species live in saltwater (with a few exeptions) clams are more rounded and of lighter color. that and mussels congregate in huge numbers and pile on top of eachother whilst clams are more solitary.

laskolasko - 13 years ago

So amazing how something so slow and gooey looking has the strength to pull itself down under... haha other than that, I was planning to get something like this for my goldfish tank, something tells me the goldfish would tear a poor clam apart..

alienroot - 13 years ago

i got one of these from my river...

squaltermann - 13 years ago

is it vomiting?

Dillon Neighbors - 13 years ago

lol. I like the cory ya have in thar :3

Dillon Neighbors - 13 years ago

@fgf051 uhmmmm first off its spelled mussel secondly clams and mussels are not the same thing. a freshwater clam is a clam. a freshwater mussel is a freshwater mussel.

Conner Haynes - 13 years ago

i found a ton in lakes like yesterday i found about 12 at roosevelt lake buried in the sand

PMasty - 13 years ago

I know this is old but im lookin for some freshwater clams, where did you get yours? my local stores dont carry em and i can only find one type online

puppetmaster1000 - 13 years ago

what is that white stuff

dlindeman - 13 years ago

@freakin1random I agree .good vid though. speeding up is easily done .

Patrick McCarthy - 13 years ago

I WANT ONE!!!

jcx420 - 13 years ago

I used to watch grass grow... Now i do this = )

eyesonyou2ube - 13 years ago

Fish swimming around look like they are on speed lmao

Geniva Anderson - 14 years ago

@Theoccasionalcoop nope its a clam. mussels dont dig :)

Dorian Anreiter - 14 years ago

aquarists shouldn't really keep freshwater clams. pet shops tell people that they find food in the water, they do in nature because they live in fast flowing streams so lots of food is washed over them. But in an aquarium insufficient water and therefore food flows over them. If people keep them they should feed them plankton by squirting it at them with a syringe. Unless that is done they ALWAYS starve to death in aquaria.