Hermits kill turbo snails??

Unless I'm missing something, "Mexican" implies "Mexico" implies tropical waters.

 

Most "mexican" turbos are not from mexican waters. Most are collected along the south cali coast and around the sea of cortez. Their temp is suggested to be from 70 to 80, but do best towards 70. Most people keep their tanks at 78-81. mexican turbos cannot handle these high temps for longer than a month or two. They also don't feed as well at higher temps. making them pretty much useless.

Canadian bacon isn't from canada. A name can have a country or area in it, but not actually be from there.

 

The ones in the Sea of Cortez are pretty well tropical. If I remember correctly, the BSJF is also from that area, and they prefer a temp of around 75. That's definitely not insanely far from the range you would keep a reef, especially not to the point where they would be cooking slowly; I could never do this 90 degree weather nonsense in Jersey by that logic.

What I can see is that their lifespan will be shortened slightly because they're moving faster, as biological processes speed up with heat until the compounds involve are at the point of breaking down, which surely doesn't apply to a 3 degree difference. That doesn't mean they're cooking; it means they're eating algae faster, digesting faster, making a shell faster, and aging faster.

The other issue is that there's "Mexican" turbo snails that are misnamed or misidentified, and that's a problem that should be fixed in the industry. Area of origin for all livestock.

 

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The problem is that even if you feed enough, crabs will still kill snails.

 

i did a little experiment, i got 6 turbos during a sale at my LFS and put 3 in my DT and 3 in my fuge just to see how they do, all three in the DT died and all three in the fuge are alive and well sucking away at the refugium..

my assumption is at some point they fall off the glass for whatever reason at which a hermits stumbles upon it and game over.. turbos can flip themselves over i have watched it several times, but they cant hide from a hermit its size during this slow process, the hermits will sit there and pluck it out of its shell.

 

Nice experiment. Does this apply for all hermits? Or just the larger one or dwarfs? Just blue legs(aren't they the most aggressive?) or all large/dwarf hermits?

 

My blue legs are pretty mellow. I have a couple zebra hermits and they take what they want when they want it. The scarlet's are shy and dont bother anything.

 

I have half red half blue, and Honestly it I didn't catch a blue leg hermit, I did catch the bigger red ones that have worked their way up to the biggest shells.