Turbo Snails

The turbo snail is native to the gulf of california off the coast of mexico. The turbo snails turbo fluctuosa are found within crevices on reefs in the sea of cortez in mexico. They stay in these during the day moving very rarely and are active during the night time.

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Turbo is a genus of large sea snails with gills and an operculum marine gastropod molluscs in the family turbinidae the turban snails.

Turbo snails. They are native to the caribbean and gulf of mexico. An excellent member of your aquarium s cleanup crew the turbo snail thrives in crevices and holes in natural reefs. Turbo is the type genus of the family.

They would leave the reef only to graze on algae. In the home aquarium the turbo snail needs ample hiding places and large spaces to graze. Natural habitat of the mexican turbo snail.

Turbo snails love to hang on the glass and rocks eating many types of algae. Mexican turbo snails are found most commonly attached to and under rocks or coral reefs especially on dead corals where the growth of fresh algal vegetation is abundant and within mud and sand substrate in the intertidal zone. The shells of species in this genus are more or less.

The turbo snail is an excellent choice as a part of your clean up crew as it will aggressively consume large amounts of nuisance algae.