sea scallops? hard to keep??

[scoops212001]

before i buy anything like i said before i am asking you guys fisrts, what do they eat and are they hard to keep.

[commandertekki]

no, they're pretty cool little fellas that eat detrious materials.

[JCorbett]

I have had them before, they seem to dart off to where you cant see them. I had mine for maybe 3-4 mos. Ive heard they dont live long in captivity. Id be curious if someone could comment on that.

[commandertekki]

i think it has to do with water temperatures where they come from cold climates and not tropical climate. But I've not had any problems with mine.

[psiico]

They are filter feeders that starve to death in most aquaria. Unless you feed a lot of phyto and the like they'll die.

[bertoni]

I had a flame scallop that was sold to me as "easy to keep". It starved to death over a period of months. Some people are lucky with them, though.

[Aaron1100us]

mine lasted about 6 months

[Steven Pro]

http://www.advancedaquarist.com/issues/july2002/toonen.htm

[ri]

Never owned one myself but a LFS owner (a good one) does not recommend them for the same reasons stated above - they wont live but a few months, at best, in most tanks.

ri