Getting rid of my Turbo Snails

[stevertr]

Well.....I've had it.
They said that Turbo Snails were "reef safe." Great algae eaters etc.... Well...for the second time in two days one of my snails has been just plowing through my coral..eating it right of the rock in big chunks. This morning my big tree coral had been knocked off it's shelf by a snail. Today, they were feeding on my other coral.. I'm done..and I'm either throwing them out the window in the morning or returning them to my LFS as a good will gesture to keep from doing a bad thing. I suppose I could always make escargo... not sure why that seems so cruel when I just had escargo a few weeks ago in a restaurant...but it does seem like a no-no.
I guess I'm unclear what the definition "reef safe" means. These snails are terrorists.
Any other warnings?? I was going to get some starfish....or urchins. Will I have the same problems?? Anything out there that will clean GLASS ONLY!!
Regards
Steve:notsure:

 

[effloresce]

ok well turbos are not reef safe because they dont come from tropical climates, they are colder water snails that dotn have good survival rates in 80* water, and most reefs run around 79*-81* they slowly die away, i have one, and it eats diatom growing on glass.
Astrea snails are great cleaners!!!!!!!!! if iw ere you i would buy a "reef package" from SWF.com they are over to the left of your screen, i just recived mine a week ago and i am almost alage free.

 

[debbie g]

I've got 4 giant mexican turbo snails and they've been nothing but good to me. Also the astrea turbo snails. They are constantly busy.
I think the whole thing about eating them, would be kind of like eating a pet. eww
Bring 'em back to the store and good luck.