Hypo salinity to kill all vermited

[Lousybreed]

I have too many of the large vermited snails in my huge reef flat, I have capacity to move all the corals over to another flat I have in hopes of eradicating all the vermited snails in the tank. I would like to leave all the fish in the system. If I ran my tanks salinity at 1.013 for a length of time, would this eradicate all the vermited snails?

The big vermited snails I am dealing with are very easy to remove from my coral and bases, so my plan is to kill the ones in the tank and then remove all on my corals so when everything gets reintroduced everything is ready to go!

 

[Dread Pirate Dave]

Just bumping it up :)

I also would like to know too just in case I ever have this issue down the road!

 

[Salty2021]

I bought some bumblebee snails. They do a good job longterm. They are not the fastest.

 

[Russell G]

I had a huge problem with them as well and thought I would try some bumblebee snails. I didn’t know what to expect for the length of time it would take to see anything noticeable and the tubes make it seem like there’s still a ton but I would take some time every now and then to knock them down and eventually they stopped coming back.

I’m thinking the snails were able to stop the young ones and knocking down the older ones helped the bumblebees access and eat them. Now I just have a few remaining tubes that are harder to get to but I don’t see any activity in them.

 

[Flex714]

I've tried it and they survived. On a different tank I had my salinity at 1.30 and most of them died, I also had really bad nutrients problem. Phosphate 1.0 and nitrate 12. Also i had ick in the tank. I was able to get my ozone running,(which killed ick and vermited free floating in the water trying to repopulate), 2 skunk shrimp, gfo, and water changes. It's been 3 months i don't see any of the snails webs,and no ick I only lost my 3yr old wrasse. RIP. I know I'm a bad reefer.

 

[everpresentnoob]

Ive heard that using something like coral snow will clog the snails nets and kill them off as well as clean the water. Is that a possibility?

 

[exnisstech]

Ive heard that using something like coral snow will clog the snails nets and kill them off as well as clean the water. Is that a possibility?

I think the coral snow is more likely to remove the particulates that they feed on. I've never seen any sign that it is clogging the tubes.

 

[everpresentnoob]

granted ive never dealt with them, just repeating what i heard in Youtube vids about snow. and you know there is never any misinformation in those!! lol. a number of different people stated that the flocculant in the snow would clog the nets the snails use to catch food and they would basically choke out and die off.