Freshwater clams!

[junglepython2]

mussel and clams

[junglepython2]

the first two are of clams the second has its tongue out

the next two are of mussels, bit hard to tell in the photo but there generally much larger, darker and have a rougher shell than the clams

The clams are more interesting in that they tend to move around alot more

[Zeus_the_beardie]

mine are deffently clams!

[jack]

They should be fine with turtles, but be aware that the larval stage of Australian freshwater mussels (clams as you call 'em) is a parasite on fish...so they are not the best beastie for your aquarium if you have more than one!

[Zeus_the_beardie]

explain larval stage, does this mean i cant give my turtles fish or snails in their tank?

[Zeus_the_beardie]

Larval stage ??? so i cant feed fish to my turtles in their tank

[jack]

Most of the fresh water mussels produce a tiny larvae, smaller than a pinhead, that burrows into the gills and soft tissue of aus. native fish, after a period of a week or so the larvae burrow out of the fish and drop to the substrate of the water course, where they change into the shelled bivalve form we recognise as a mussel.
I really don't think they harm reptiles, and they don't seem to harm my archer fish to badly...

[Zeus_the_beardie]

thanks so is that how clams/mussels breed