Are little neck clams salt water or fresh water?

Question

how do you keep them as pets?

Answer 1

Salt water

Care for your pet clam:

We keep our clam ("Clammy Sosa") in a ten gallon aquarium with snails, a painted turtle ("Adrock"), and a goldfish ("Earl"). The tank has a gravel bottom. This is acceptable only if the gravel is about 4 inches deep, so the clam can burrough and feel safe. Sand is the best thing for them to live in but it's nearly impossible to keep clean, and your tank may start to stink even after you clean it, unless you use fresh sand with each cleaning. Being filter feeders, they will help keep your tank clean by eating the left over fish food, as well as bacteria. If you feel as though your clam is not getting enough to eat, finely grind flake fish food between your fingers and add to the tank, your clam will love you for it!! Also, occasionally add a leaf or two to the tank and allow it to decompose, don't worry, your clam will eat it and the tank will soon be clean again! Clams also prefer fairly calm water so if you have a filter, make sure it's not too powerful! If your clam developed algae on his shell, it's best not to wash it off as clams make a mucous in which they entrap food, cleaning the clam will strip him of his moucus and he will have to spend several days making more before he can eat again, it probobly will not kill him but he'll be pretty upset with you, not to mention, your tank will get nasty without his help.:)

Am talking about a clam not neck clams.

Answer 2

They live only in salt water.

Answer 3

Salt  You buy some water front property.

Answer 4

i believe sparrow clam is saltwater as there is no way you can keep a littleneck clam as a pet in a tank with a painted turtle and goldfish

essentially you just set up a basic coldwater saltwater fish tank and add them in..

they are filter feeders that will live off algea scraping form the tank, and could do with some supplimental feeding of phytoplankton or marine snow..

they need alot of calcium int he water to grow properly..

you COULD buy a live littleneck at a grocery store.. i bought an oyster and a pair of mussels like that before they died.. but they lasted about 6 months.. they died as i went away for a week and a half and the people who were supposed to take care of the tank... well let's just say they didn't...