Mussel

[Becca]

Last night my husband notice that there is a mussel living on one of the live rocks, is this okay or shoudl i take it out of the tank?

 

[RyanG]

MMMM eat it.

 

[daugherty]

i have 4 or 5 of them on my rocks they do no harm

 

[Becca]

MMMM eat it.

lol your to funny!!


Thanks daugherty.
Do I need to feed him anything special?

 

[daugherty]

i have never fed directly i have added phyto for other things

 

[Becca]

phyto

what is that?
sorry if that a stupid question but i have never heard of that.

 

[daugherty]

it is a filter feeder food the one i use is called phyto plex there in a few others like micro vert, marine snow and a couple others i think. the mussel will get almost every thing from the water that it needs.

 

[Becca]

okay thank you for all your help

 

[yote]

The mussel is actually good for your tank.They will feed on dissolved protiens.And that will help with nitrates.

 

[daugherty]

every one that i have in my tank faces the rock i wish i could turn them aroun so that you could see them. i am thinking that this is normal for them as every one of them in my tank is facing the rock.???

 

[simpleman]

Mussels are living filters just like clams

 

[yote]

every one that i have in my tank faces the rock i wish i could turn them aroun so that you could see them. i am thinking that this is normal for them as every one of them in my tank is facing the rock.???

Thats pretty much normal.Every one I've seen faces the rock.
I think they do that as protection against predators.

 

[Bifferwine]

Mussels are pretty common hitch hikers and you won't need to do anything special for it to keep it alive.

 

[Justin101]

I use to have some up front in the tank... Lil guys, white insides, dark shells. then they moved behind the rocks... Id leave it. They are good!