Zebra Turbo Snail - Zebra Turbo - Turbo Grazer
Zebra Turbo Snail - Zebra Turbo Taxonomy: Zebra Turbo Snail – Zebra Turbo belongs to the Kingdom Animalia, Phylum Mollusca, Class Gastropoda, Family Turbinidae and Genus Turbo.
Scientific names: The scientific name of Zebra Turbo Snail - Zebra Turbo is Turbo species.
Other common names: Zebra Turbo Snail - Zebra Turbo is also commonly known Turbo Grazer and Zebra Striped Turbo Snail.
Origin or natural range: Zebra Turbo Snail - Zebra Turbo originates from a warm water region, Belize.
Size: Zebra Turbo Snail - Zebra Turbo may grow up to a diameter of approximately six inches.
Color: Zebra Turbo Snail - Zebra Turbo occurs in Yellow, White and Black colors.
Aggression: Zebra Turbo Snail - Zebra Turbo is non-aggressive towards the marine aquarium members.
Compatibility: Zebra Turbo Snail - Zebra Turbo is reef compatible.
Venom status: Zebra Turbo Snail - Zebra Turbo is non-poisonous in nature.
Morphology:
- The shell of Zebra Turbo Snail - Zebra Turbo is shaped like a top or a turban and is banded with Black and Yellow colors. The shell may however, appear Green in color owing to the growth of Green Coralline Algae on its surface.
- The mantle of Zebra Turbo Snail - Zebra Turbo is large and fleshy and regularly secretes shell to increase its size in order to keep up with the body growth.
Aquarium habit & habitat:
- Tank type: To host Zebra Turbo Snail - Zebra Turbo, you should have an established, warm Reef Type Marine Aquarium with a minimum water capacity of sixty gallons.
- Aquarium set-up:
- Your marine aquarium should have enough Live Rocks and rocks for Zebra Turbo Snail - Zebra Turbo to search food upon and to hide in.
- Give ample roaming space to Zebra Turbo Snail - Zebra Turbo in your reef tank.
- Temperature of water: Seventy-two to seventy-eight degrees Fahrenheit.
- Specific gravity of water: 1.023 to 1.025.
- pH of water: 8.10 to 8.40.
- Illumination: Zebra Turbo Snail - Zebra Turbo does not require lighting in the marine aquarium it inhabits.
- Acclimation: Slowly acclimate Zebra Turbo Snail - Zebra Turbo to your reef tank’s environment using Slow Drip Method. The slow acclimation process needs a minimum time period of two hours.
- Growth size in aquarium: In captivity, Zebra Turbo Snail - Zebra Turbo grows to an approximate size of two inches.
- Diet: Zebra Turbo Snail - Zebra Turbo is Herbivorous in feeding habit.
- Food content: Zebra Turbo Snail - Zebra Turbo mainly eats algae, especially Hair Algae.
- Supplements:
- Add Calcium to the tank water as dietary supplement for the shell growth of Zebra Turbo Snail - Zebra Turbo. Maintain the Calcium level between three hundred and fifty ppm and four hundred and fifty ppm.
- In case there is not ample food for Zebra Turbo Snail - Zebra Turbo in your marine aquarium, supplement the snail’s meal with dried seaweed.
- Benefits: Zebra Turbo Snail - Zebra Turbo is an algae eater and therefore, keeps your marine aquarium free of algal infestation.
- Zebra Turbo Snail - Zebra Turbo is easy to maintain.
- Sudden fluctuations in the pH and the temperature of your marine aquarium may give pH shock and temperature shock, respectively, to Zebra Turbo Snail - Zebra Turbo therein.
- Copper and Nitrates in any form in your marine aquarium may prove lethal for Zebra Turbo Snail - Zebra Turbo in it.
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