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Exporting Turbo snails from NZ?

April 26, 2017exporting nz snails TURBO

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Exporting Turbo snails from NZ?

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Hi, I am considering setting up a small venture exporting the Turbo Snail “Turbo smaragda” to the US aquarium trade, from my country, New Zealand. This snail is relatively unattractive, but as far as my own experience, makes an excellent tank cleaner, and if used, no other cleanup crew is needed. Is this snail currently being used in the US? and if so, what is your opinion of it? . Alas, I simply don’t see it being a viable candidate> The reason I seek your opinion on this is that prior to beginning export of this species there are a number of legal processes to go through which will strain my fina