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Originally Posted by JayBeDriften  Hello BrianPlankis, your are correct. That is one of my Tonga Zebra Hermits. Their voracious eaters and huge at that, measuring on average of 1.5 inches in width. I have a local livestock dealer that specializing in only marine livestock and he is addicted to getting only exotic marine life, especially marine life from Tonga. I think he is a bit obsessed with Tonga but his obsession is our gain. He also gives me pretty good deal on livestock since I give him paychecks. LOL. Here a better photograph for you. If anyone was interested I could see how many he could get at a time and we could probably do a group buy minus to shipping to everyone location. Besides I'm looking to get about 250 of these guys for my new 180 gallon setup that I should be messing with in a couple of months. |
Jay,
Just to be clear we are talking about the Tonga Zebra SNAIL right, I don't see hermits in those pictures
Anyway, would it be possible to get a picture of the snail out of the water and fully closed up so you could see the shell opening. Similar to these pictures:
http://www.gastropods.com/4/Shell_12194.html
The reason I ask is that snail may not be from Tonga, it looks much closer to a Zebra Turbo much more commonly available in the hobby that is from Belize.
The only reason I'm commenting is that many retail and distributers are starting to claim that cold water snails are from warm water locations (Tonga, Fiji, etc). Now the Belize Zebra Turbo snail could come from reasonably warm water (72-78F) so it should survive longer than colder water snails.
Why would you need 250 1.5" snails in a 180 gallon tank? That seems to be a bit much.
Brian
