Anyone been successful keeping out pest (esp vermetid snails)?

[holdthecoffee]

Who's been been able to keep out vermetid snails and other pest? I would love to hear success stories. But I would not mind hearing failed attepts to learn from.

I was thinking about getting sps, dipping in coral rx 10 min, dip in bayer 10 min, cut off plug, glue on new plug, place inside QT tank, re-dip every week for one month, and finally observe in a new QT tank for 3 months. Thoughts? Too extreme?

 

[01xp]

Sounds good and a whole lot more than me

 

[ZipAdeeZoa]

So far I’ve succesfully prevented aiptasia, vermatid snails, black bugs and asterina stars from getting into my tank. I have to coral QTs and between thorough dipping with coral RX and a month or two of observation nothing harmful has managed to slip by me. Aiptasia and vermatid get glued over then a while of observation to make sure I got them all.

 

[holdthecoffee]

I was in the hobby in the early 2000s and most pest weren't even on the radar, esp vermetid snails.

Looking back on my tank, I definitely had a bunch of vermetid snails covering some of my rocks and equipment. I'm not sure if the pest were rampant back then and we just didn't notice, or if they have just become so common in everyone's tank.

 

[Jphoadley]

I had Vermited snails, quite a few of them! I was moving to a larger tank, so when I did that, I examined every rock as I moved them over and used a needle nose to pull off every one I could find, and superglued any hole that was underneath them, then I dipped the rocks in CoralRX for about 7 minutes. It was kind of an assembly line. Took awhile but I have yet to see any on the new tank.

 

[Alexopora]

Who's been been able to keep out vermetid snails and other pest? I would love to hear success stories. But I would not mind hearing failed attepts to learn from.

I was thinking about getting sps, dipping in coral rx 10 min, dip in bayer 10 min, cut off plug, glue on new plug, place inside QT tank, re-dip every week for one month, and finally observe in a new QT tank for 3 months. Thoughts? Too extreme?

Aiptasias never make into my tank since it always, snap coral of the frag plug and glue into a fresh new one. Then QT for 2 weeks or longer. Then snap that coral off and glue onto a new frag plug before going into the DT. This is how I stop AEFW and Monti Eating Nudis from entering my DTs.

As for vermitids, I live with them. I just let my sps overgrow them. Just ramp up the flow as much as I can. Then again most of my sps aren’t attached to the rockwork for ease of fragging and maintenance since the only pest that i have failed to curb are digitate hydroids. They are a menace to newly introduced frags but generally dont do much to established corals.

 

[king aiptasia]

I was in the hobby in the early 2000s and most pest weren't even on the radar, esp vermetid snails.

Looking back on my tank, I definitely had a bunch of vermetid snails covering some of my rocks and equipment. I'm not sure if the pest were rampant back then and we just didn't notice, or if they have just become so common in everyone's tank.

now everyone fear mongers, so originally benign animals are viewed as satan incarnate

 

[dvgyfresh]

I have a lot of vermitid snails, I wish something could eat them , what I’ve been doing is getting encrusting corals to grow over them lol or get some GSP / Xenia to overgrow them