Feeding raw fresh clams

[unklez]

If i throw a fresh clam in the aquarium how long till it spoils?

 

[Tahoe61]

Depends on many things like temp of the water.
What specifically are you feeding?

 

[Paul B]

By night time it will stink pretty bad.

 

[Ron Reefman]

Dead stuff starts to spoil the moment you put it in the water. It's just a matter of time before it stinks. Water temp, flow, critters that may eat or work at the edges of it.

 

[unklez]

I feed my copperband 2 cockles a day since last week. I take out the cockle after 2 hours.

He probably only eats 10% of the cockles while picking at it for 2 hours straight lol. Hope it's enough.

 

[Paul B]

Thats the best food for any fish especially a copperband.

 

[Big E]

I've been feeding clams for 30 years and have always frozen them first and then cut one up as needed.............it's then broadcast fed to the fish. I refrigerate what isn't used that day for the next. I only feed clams/mussels once a week at the most.

I do this with all fresh seafood..........you can also just buy frozen bags of raw seafood. I mainly do this with scallops cause it's a lot less expensive.

 

[ReefHog]

Are frozen clams like below as nutritional as fresh clams such as little neck clams from seafood market? I like these because they’re the perfect size for my CBB and moorish idol and easy to pop out the meat to feed with tweezers.

 

[ReefHog]

Bump

 

[sfin52]

I use fresh clams. l the ittle neck clams I have lived for a few months. The minute they died my hermits and snails where all over it and had it cleaned up in a couple of hours.

The ones for fish food I throw in a blender and use in diy fish food.