Turbo comes home

Ben and I made a quick trip out to Aquatek (quickly becoming our favorite LFS) to re-home the remaining hermit crabs from our secondary system and to purchase a turbo snail for some help with the hair algae. The exchange process was very simple. They just took our bag of 7 hermit crabs and added them into their population of hermits for sale. We were given $10.50 store credit (half the value of a new hermit, not bad at all!). We went over to the snail tank and one of the employees fished out 3 of the smaller snails for us to look at. Ben pick the one he liked best and we walked to the front of the store to complete our purchase.

We now have a new tank residence with the ability to eat hair algae (not sure yet whether it has the proclivity for eating hair algae) and an "empty" 5 gallon hex tank that we can use as a quarantine tank for future fish purchases. We only purchased one snail because Allie and I are sort of sensitive about overstocking the snails. Some of the books we have read have given us a real soft spot for them. We are going slow to make sure that we have fat and happy snails. One other reason that we started with one Turbo is because turbos can grow to be fairly large snails and have more of a tendency to knock overcorals than other snails.