electric flame scallop

[littleking247]

hi new to this whole thing i have a 15 gallon reef tank about 4 weeks old and i just got a electric flame scallop and i was wandering if anyone has any info on them. He is on the glass of my tank and was wandering if that is normal or not.

[ROB2005]

Your tank is still very young indeed. You might want to wait a little longer before adding anything like those. As for flame scallops, they do not really do that well in captivity. Maximum is a year, 3-5 months the normal. But a tank that young might lead to their demise faster as it is still pretty unstable at this point.

I don't mean to sound negative, but Im basing this off my experience and study of these bivalves.

[acrodave]

any of the scallops are a bad choice they need to much food and since they can move they will go behind your tank and die and you will never know

[icliao]

Flame scallop requires tons of natural plankton food to fare well. The condition is almost impossible to achieve without in average system. Most of them just starve to death after a few months.

[littleking247]

thanks for all the input i never take anything negatively. im still learning about everythin and appreciate everyones input

[richofoz]

It doesn't seem that many of the filter feeding mulluscs do too well in captivity. I once tried keeping mussels in a temperate fowlr tank without much luck, about half of them died pretty quickly in the main tank.
They did fare alot better after I put them in my sump though.
I think the very high flow past them made sure they got a bit more food.
All I can suggest is regular spot feeding with a range of planktonic foods, and like your doing now as much research as you can!!
Good luck!

[keith1974]

ive had them manny time with no luck

[m2434]

They look nice, just don't get too attached.

[jake32010]

i had 2 and they lasted about 3 weeks. the place i got them is a local pet store and guy there said the use jet porpoltion to move and they will hang on the glass or filter basicly anything.

[boomsticks]

I must have been lucky. I had one for a little over two years in a 55 gal. Never fed it apparently I had enough dissolved organics to feed it.

[jjakes24]

I had one for about a year and a half in a 55. It just recently died off.