Forget Turbo Snails. I have a much better option.

[ewurm]

You may have seen the recent pics of my rescaped SW tank. I forgot to clean the back glass, which is covered in a carpet of algae. All my algae snails died in the power outage, so I had to buy some new ones. Turbos never lasted for me, so I bought three astrias, and three margaritas. The astrias have done nothing. The three margaritas wiped about a 1/4 of that back glass clean, IN ONE NIGHT. I bought three more the next day. Now they have 2/3 of the algae completely gone. They are cleaning my intake and my filter output to a spotless shine.


FORGET THE TURBOS, GET THE MARGARITAS.

 

[santoury]

nice... are those the colorful snails

 

[ewurm]

Here's a pic

 

[Pufferpunk]

I put 100 Margaritas in my tank, to take care of an infestation of red turf algae. The ones that didn't crawl out are now inhabited by blue-legged hermits. Now I use turbos & they have almost irradicated the red scourge.

 

[ewurm]

Haha, the maragritas won't eat the red turf in my tank either, but I don't have much of a problem with that. My problem is the brown algae.

 

[Pufferpunk]

Well, I was told they would eat the red stuff, which is why I got 100 of them. Luckily they were only 35 cents. Most of them I found on the rim or on the floor bewhind the tank. The rest of the blue-legged "margaritas" have now been fed to my Mantis shrimp.

 

[ewurm]

The good news is, they have decimated the rest of the algae in my tank. I am going to have to feed them to keep them alive! LOL

 

[KenyanSandBoa]

Nice...how big are these guys, ewurm?

I don't think they'll last in my predator tank, but my reef is coming together and it might be a good addition. The only down side is that you can't say you have "Turbo Snails"...which is hands down, the best common name EVER.

 

[ewurm]

They're about an inch. They're much smaller than turbos, but much hungrier.

 

[Pufferpunk]

My Mantis shrimp ate 20 margaritas in less than a week. He can't crack the turbo--he's tried.