Tropical Fish Forum
Tropical Fish Keeping Help and Advice => General Fishkeeping advice => Topic started by: Sanjo on April 02, 2015, 12:41:02 PM
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Went there yesterday to buy a couple of Zebra snails.
They have a designated member of staff who deals with fish so I sought her out and found her on the till.
Anyway, happy to help. Asked me temperate or tropical and when I said Temperate she refused to sell me the Zebra and she insists it's only a tropical snail.
She was happy for me to take "spotty" ones from a cooler tank.
Hey ho. I thought I had researched but there was no budging so I didn't argue and got a couple of the spotty ones and they are happily working their way round the tank.
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Your post made me smile Sanjo!
I went to PAH a while back and asked if they had any Horned Nerite snails and they said no. i then found the very snails I wanted so showed the member of staff. I was told they were cold water snails and wouldn't be suitable for a tropical tank. I had a rare moment of bravery and told them that was rubbish and that they could easily be acclimatised so I wanted some. They sold me some but I was told " dont be surprise if they die."
All snails still going strong!!!!!
I couldn't say if Zebras are solely tropical snails but as Horned Nerites can be either temperate or tropical I would be surprised if that was different to Zebras. I could be wrong!
FC76
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I suspect it depends on what people mean by temperate. We live within the temperate zone climatically and so temperate could be taken to mean cold water. The use of temperate to mean something between cold water and tropical seems to be largely peculiar to fish keeping.
I'm always intrigued by the fact that none of the places which have claims to be the hottest on earth (Death Valley California, a desert in Iran and a place in Libya) are in the tropics They are actually all in the north "temperate" zone.