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California Floater Mussels Take Fish For an Epic Joyride

California Floater Mussels Take Fish For an Epic Joyride

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The California floater mussel does a surprising amount of travel - for a bivalve. First it gets ejected from its parent's shell into the wide watery wilderness. Then it leads a nomad's life clamped on the fins or gills of a fish. Once it's all grown up, the mussel goes to work filtering the water, keeping it clean for all the life that depends on it. Check out Antarctic Extremes on PBS Terra
Date: 2023-11-16

Comments and reviews: 20


I had a teacher ages ago and she showed us a video. The bivalves had a foot that over time looked like tiny fish. And bigger fish would think it was a little one to eat and dive for it. The bivalves would then retract it's foot and blast the fish with it's babies so they could latch on. It was really cool.
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I dont think the title accurately depicts what the video shows. It states that the mussels take the fish for a joy ride, but correctly stated would be fish take the mussels for a joy ride. The mussels merely clamp onto the fish and are subject to go wherever the fish go.
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Growing up near a river we used to go out and collect fresh water mussels to make chowder out of. My girlfriends never did understand my love for clam chowders, they always call it Fishgut stew lol
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4: 09 I like how they show us that fish, as an inhabitant of the community. But the fish is like he? It has no clue all this is happening, it's just. there: D
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Jeez so meaning to say I should go get myself a clam or mussels and add it to my aquarium to add as a pet filter and fertilizer maker for my aquatic plants?
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Male Mussel: Hi, you remember that night we were together.
Female Mussel: Yeah?
Male Mussel: About that, You should get tested for Glochidia

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Now what about those blasted invasive mussels clogging our freshwater lakes here in Canada from the USA? Theyre beating out our natural ecosystems.
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This is very informative, now we known that mussels act like natural filter and play important role for balance eco system in our lakes and seabeds
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The fish take the mussels for a ride yet you state it the other way around in the title. Its little things like this that annoy me.
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Every part of an environment is crucial to maintain that environment.
I don't need to be a biologist to figure that one out.

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But it's actually called a. foot - goes on to show square, usually containing complicated latin words, reading foot. Cracked me up!
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I have 2 huge swan mussels in my aquarium, cant even see them because they are dug in sand, only those 2 opening are visible.
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Could you please tell me the camera model you used for this? I need it for my research on mussel feeding behaviour. THank you
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Just goes to show most mothers in the animal kingdom poop themselves when giving birth. Yes that includes humans.
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Do mussles eat their babies when they suck in all the water with thousands of those babies floating around
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We need them here in Manila Bay to filter the large amount of water that turns into a dark and poisonous water.
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Lol I always thought people had mussle boils at the lake, never clued in there was actually fresh water mussle!
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2: 52 i have one 2cm long exactly like this in my aquarium they are cute. I'm not sure which species are these
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On the other hand, zebra mussels filter the water too much, disrupting the food chain at its foundation.
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If you have mussles in an aquarium, how would you know if your fish has fin rot or just being a school bus?
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