Barnacle. To go or not to go?
 

I've got a barnacle on a newly aquired clam about 3/4" round and don't know if I should try to remove it or how if I should. It is attached near the top of the clam on the outside of its shell and it is fishing out a lot of stringy lines sliming up some nearby corals. Its seems to annoy them but not really causing any damage that I can tell.

Are these bad and if so, how do you kill/get rid of it?

Even if you don't kill it on purpose, most hitchhiker barnacles eventually starve to death in fish tanks. I love them & successfully kept several alive for months, but that's an exception rather than the rule I believe.

Anthony

time to bring back an ancient thread


i have successfully kept a barnacle for 5 months now, it came in on a piece of cultured frogspawn on all things and it hasnt died yet, although the frogspawn died

I will take it off your hands if you are looking for a home for it. I love barnacles and would love to see one in my tank. I have a very "particulate high" tank that it should do well in. If you can get it off the clam, let me know.