Familia: Unionidae
Mejillón de pato es un uniónido asiático y hospedador de bitterling. Concha de 10–15 cm; 15–26 °C, acuario maduro.
Sinanodonta woodiana is a Unionidae freshwater mussel, East Asia's classic river mussel and the traditional host of bitterling. In the aquarium it is a harmless filter feeder that clears green water. Plan on a 10–15 cm shell at 15–26 °C in a mature tank; it needs suspended foods and stable, unheated-tolerant conditions.
Dificultad media. Harmless filter feeder; Keep singly or a pair.
Mantén el agua a 15–26 °C. 15–26 °C stable range. Stable 15–26 °C; tolerates an unheated native tank.
Alcanza 10–15 cm; es buried in the substrate — siphons at the surface. Acuario mínimo de 100 L.
Filter feeder on phytoplankton; benefits from green water or invertebrate foods. Forraja sobre fine sand — it buries almost completely: deja que parte del alimento llegue al fondo.
Harmless filter feeder; Keep singly or a pair. Buenos compañeros: Bitterling — Spawns inside the mussel in nature — a living symbiosis, Cold-hardy native community fish — Same cool, hard water.No convive con Copper-based medications — Lethal to all invertebrates, Loaches that dig — Disturb a buried mussel.
De East Asia — China, Japan, Korea, Amur basin: still or slow waters with sandy-muddy bottoms, con still to very gentle current.
In the wild uses bitterling as its fish host; rarely reproduces in aquaria. No practical external difference.