My daughter was picking up shells at the river and apparently picked up a live clam. She put it in water and has become attached to it. I looked it up and apparently they’re hard to keep alive in tanks with fish because they starve but I’m wondering if there is a way to keep it alive by itself since there won’t be any fish that require the cleaner water.
Posted by rachelariel3
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They need a large environment and a lot of care. It often isn’t recommended to keep wild animals, specifically who have already lived life in the wild. Cutting any one of them off from the large space and environment they’re familiar with can be extremely stressful. If it was bred and raised in captivity, that would be different. It would not be able to live very freely in the wild. Clams also have very specific care requirements that likely won’t be easy to upkeep. When there’s significant changes in a clams environment, they must try to adapt, and often this causes them stress, leading to them staying closed and/or no longer eating, starving themselves on accident because they’re trying to protect themselves. It’s a lot of unnecessary stress for the animal and work for you. I’m not sure how old your daughter is but maybe instead this could be a lesson in selflessness, and that wild animals belong in the wild and it’s better to make sure they’re healthy and happy than keeping it and risking its well-being