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[elijah scot]

I got some snails around 4 months ago and only recently I had noticed a clam looking thing growing on one of my snails.if anyone knows what it is and how I might be able to keep it alive please tell me because it looks cool. If it is a clam how long would it take to grow as big a a tennis ball?

 

[ISpeakForTheSeas]

how I might be able to keep it alive please tell me because it looks cool. If it is a clam how long would it take to grow as big a a tennis ball?

To try and keep it alive, I'd offer it a good portion of Isochrysis galbana (T-Iso), Chaetoceros sp., and/or Thalassiosira sp. phytoplankton daily.

For how long it will take to grow: that depends on what species it is. I don't know if it's a clam, but it is definitely some kind of bivalve (bivalves include clams, mussels, oysters, scallops, etc.). Some bivalves (like the giant clams) get absolutely enormous and would probably tennis ball size pretty quickly. Other bivalves, however, stay tiny forever. So, without knowing exactly what species you have, it's impossible to say how long it will to take grow (or if it even will).

 

[elijah scot]

To try and keep it alive, I'd offer it a good portion of Isochrysis galbana (T-Iso), Chaetoceros sp., and/or Thalassiosira sp. phytoplankton daily.

For how long it will take to grow: that depends on what species it is. I don't know if it's a clam, but it is definitely some kind of bivalve (bivalves include clams, mussels, oysters, scallops, etc.). Some bivalves (like the giant clams) get absolutely enormous and would probably tennis ball size pretty quickly. Other bivalves, however, stay tiny forever. So, without knowing exactly what species you have, it's impossible to say how long it will to take grow (or if it even will).

Yeah thanks I’ll definitely try my hardest to keep it alive and well and see what it turns out to be