Hello Dan,

How warm should be the water (please information in Celcius degree). Which ground do they like.
Fine one or more rough.  As they want to eat algas, could the aquarium placed nearby a
window. A normal cheap pump with filter is enough to keep them alive.
Are they sensitive again fresh salt water and shall I let run the fresh seawater for a long time
as when I want to build up a tank with marin fish. Or are the Cypraeidae less sensittive.
Please more information on this.
the $ 70.-- are on its way and I am just looking foreward with great interest to the parcel and
the shells and those you donate. Please send the shells to my address, as I want to show
them first to my mother, as she is not going out in the moment and prefer to stay at home.
Then after having showed her I will bring the shells to the museums collection. I will enter
your name in my website under the link of the museums collection and on the link on the
page of Ross Mayhew. Finally we will put your name into the annual report of the museum.
I would be thankful, if you can donate me also some uncommon shells and would be interested
in all families. Cypraeidae, Conidae, Muricidae and eventually some nice Pecten.
I hope you understand me, as I am mad for the shell collection of the museum.
with best regards
Helmut

Helmut "Helix" Nisters
Franz-Fischer-Str. 46
A-6020 Innsbruck / Austria / Innsbruck
phone and fax: 0043 / 512 / 57 32 14
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
web:    www.netwing.at/nisters/
           (please visit it and sign guestbook)

office:
Natural History Department of the
Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum Innsbruck
Feldstrasse 11 a
A-6020 Innsbruck / Austria / Europe
phone: 0043 / 512 / 58 72 86 - 37

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Hello Helmut,

Cypraea tigris are not difficult to keep. If you have a good lighting
source such as Metal Halide lamps. If you do not want pay too much please
use two good tubes. They mainly eat green algae in your aquarium. I keep
two living tigris for more than 2 years. Stones are ok for their crawling.

Don

At 02:48 AM 2000/5/1 -0400, you wrote:
>Dear Conchlers,
>
>maybe once I will have an aquarium with living Cypraeas, sometimes to get
tigris in our pets shop. What is
>the minimum they need, how large should be the tank for 2  tigris. Are
they difficult to keep. What do they
>need: corals, stones, eg for crawling around. What do they eat. Could
anybody give me some informations.
>thanks in advance
>Helmut from Innsbruck
>
>Helmut "Helix" Nisters
>Franz-Fischer-Str. 46
>A-6020 Innsbruck / Austria / Innsbruck
>phone and fax: 0043 / 512 / 57 32 14
>
>e-mail: [log in to unmask]
>web:    www.netwing.at/nisters/
>           (please visit it and sign guestbook)
>
>office:
>Natural History Department of the
>Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum Innsbruck
>Feldstrasse 11 a
>A-6020 Innsbruck / Austria / Europe
>phone: 0043 / 512 / 58 72 86 - 37
>