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02/07/2009, 08:16 PM
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Aquacultured turbosnails?
Are they currently being aquacultured for sale anywhere to sell to stores?
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02/10/2009, 08:08 PM
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Not that I know of.
Cerith, Nerite, Abalone, Trochus, Stombus, and Conchs are tho.
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02/11/2009, 08:45 PM
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I do not know of any turbo's either. But lots of others. The Trocus from ORA are great snails.
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02/11/2009, 10:08 PM
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Just confirming what I already knew when I asked where some snails were collected from. It is mildly insulting when someone is trying to sell you an aquacultured snail with live barnacles on the shell. lol
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02/12/2009, 12:36 PM
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thats funny same happened to me
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02/13/2009, 07:51 AM
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Some aquaculture places are technically mariculture where they have "cages" in set up in bays and harbors to grow inverts. Maybe it was a set up like this.
We have a place that grew 600,000 winter flounder and northern puffers to release a few years ago and he has his place right on a harbor so he pumps saltwater in and out directly from the harbor. I went there once to check the progress and saw there was barnacles growing in one of the tanks he had. So I would say it's possible to have barnacles on the shells, but I would not say that they are absolutely not taken from the ocean either.
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02/13/2009, 11:21 AM
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Beaun is right on the money. Aquaculture facilities using raw water (i.e. fresh pumped and unfiltered from the sea) always get barnacles and things growing in their systems. I've even pulled clams and mussels out of pipes in such facilities
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02/13/2009, 03:50 PM
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wow
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02/19/2009, 10:12 AM
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where can i find aquacultured snails?
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02/19/2009, 12:37 PM
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IPSF.COM,
Anyplace that sales ORA corals can have the ORA trochus snails, many places sell captive raised conchs. Kim
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02/20/2009, 12:59 AM
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CR trochus also come out of the Solomans.
If you are referring the the Mexican turbo snail, no, no one is breeding those. Nothing captive raised is shipped out of the Sea of Cortez  Hey Bill, sounds like they needed a PIG like MBA uses
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02/20/2009, 01:14 AM
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Thanks for the update Gresham.
Kim
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02/20/2009, 05:59 PM
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02/20/2009, 06:12 PM
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Re: Aquacultured turbosnails?
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none of the DIBS Turbos are being offered for sale? Hard to believe if true......
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02/25/2009, 10:51 PM
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