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What do salt water clams eat?

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Im pretty sure raccoons eat fresh water clams. :/

And otters and other mammals, too. A broken or dead clam will be consumed by fish or special worms in a few hours. In some places, snails also eat clams by drilling a hole in their shell using the snail's tongue (radula).

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Freshwater clams digest food threw grooves in there gills. After it is digested it is brung threw the body of the clam, putting vitamins and other nutritious food threw the body.

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Ok first off, If you are asking for the clam asians or maybe Americans eat, they feed off of planktons. The ones that were caught and in sale in the stores,(freshwater) they feed off of live krill or krills just in general.

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Most freshwater clams eat only phytoplankton, which are microscopic plants that float in the water column.

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They filter microbes from the sea water and eat that.

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They filter feed. Most likely phytoplankton or things of the sort

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plankton but you can try to feed them popcorn if you have 1 in your house

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they are bottom feeders.

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