What is this?

ZooZ · #1 12/22/2007, 03:17 PM

Seen this near my clam in the morning. Is he shedding his bypassal organ? He looks alright. Will he be ok?

skinz78 · #2 12/22/2007, 04:20 PM

yes its the old byssal threads being released. Your clam will be fine.

ZooZ · #3 12/22/2007, 04:25 PM

alright I feel better now. First time Ive experienced this. Just heard of it .

reefturkey · #4 12/23/2007, 04:28 AM

This same thing happened to me a few weeks ago and freaked me out. The clam looked very healthy the whole time so I figured i'd wait and see. It's fine now.

kdblove_99 · #5 01/03/2008, 02:00 AM

Why does it do this?

skinz78 · #6 01/03/2008, 02:49 AM

The byssal threads are like our hair or fingernails are. The grow so many and this is the clams way of discarding them.