Golden Mussel's

[dobbin]

hi have recently added a few golden mussels to my tank and watched them all lift themselves upright in the sand which was interesting but one of them has buried itself and now there is only a tiny bit of him showing is this something i should be worrying about?

thanks for any help

nick

 

[Liam]

Yeah they do bury themselves in sand and filter feed. I havent kept them myself, but did a bit of reading on them they sounded difficult to keep alive long term. Good luck with them.

 

[three-fingers]

Don't worry about it, but unless your water is green with algae they will slowly starve and die over the coarse of about a year.
To feed them you have to buy marine invertebrate food and use a pipette or something similar to squirt it right next to them.

 

[dobbin]

ahh great thanks for that