Can you have too many Turbo's

[JonoH]

A number of years ago I picked up some live rock from a local for my tank when i was upgrading, and it came with some turbo snails on it.

Fast forward to today, i literally have hundreds of them in my tank, regularly take 50 at a time to my LFS and give them away to other reefers also.

Question is, can you have too many in your tank - this was the other night, just on one part of the glass...

 

[VintageReefer]

A number of years ago I picked up some live rock from a local for my tank when i was upgrading, and it came with some turbo snails on it.

Fast forward to today, i literally have hundreds of them in my tank, regularly take 50 at a time to my LFS and give them away to other reefers also.

Question is, can you have too many in your tank - this was the other night, just on one part of the glass...

If you had too much they would be dying from starvation. Population will self regulate. No issues here if they are all living and acting fine

 

[ShakeyGizzard]

well, your tank should be quite clean, but you figure they would self limit their population

 

[Red_Beard]

As long as they dont starve and die en-masse, no. That is awesome, wish i had some better propigators in my tank. I think that you pulling 50 is definitely helping to keep things balanced though.

 

[dangles]

Would your LFS buy some from you? That’s an amazing “problem” to have!

 

[JonoH]

well, your tank should be quite clean, but you figure they would self limit their population

It does stay pretty clean - they only get onto the front glass when i havent scraped it in a week.

I like to leave it sometimes just for this :-)

If you had too much they would be dying from starvation. Population will self regulate. No issues here if they are all living and acting fine

Figured self regulating also helps when I remove a heap :-)
I dont have a heap of dead snail shells around which is normally what you would expect if they are dying off.

 

[JonoH]

Would your LFS buy some from you? That’s an amazing “problem” to have!

I hate selling things, so the barter system works well!

 

[dangles]

I hate selling things, so the barter system works well!

I grow a bunch of Pom Pom gracilaria that I sell to my LFS for store credit. Works out great because not a lot of people have it :)

 

[JonoH]

I grow a bunch of Pom Pom gracilaria that I sell to my LFS for store credit. Works out great because not a lot of people have it :)

Yeah nice - i do the same with Chaeto also.