Vermentid snails.

[devin]

Somehow vermentid snails snuck in my tank. So about 4 months ago I started fragging everything and slowly moving things over to a clean frag system. I’ve seen a few pop up on plugs but I handle them from there.

Everything is in my frag system now and handling snails there. They are few and far between.

My main display is totally stripped and running unheated RO water. I was thinking 3-4 days of that would be enough to kill any that are in my pluming and equipment? Or should I do something else? They seem super hard to completely eradicate.

Want to make sure they are dead. I have rock that’s been cycling in a tote for 6 months or so. Then I’m going to reverse the process. With new rock, new sand and frag out of my frag tank with new plugs and place in my display. Will go at a rate of 4-6 frags a week. First to a rack then later to a rock.


Am I missing anything? Should I do more? Living with them is not a option for me. Fragging is a big part of the hobby for me, so I have zero tolerance for pests. These seem like the hardest pest to deal with by far.

 

[KrisReef]

Snails might be able to survive in water longer than in a dry environment? But if you lower the pH enough their shells should dissolve and that would be the end of them for sure.
I use pool acid to lower pH and CO2, and vinegar.

GL

 

[devin]

Snails might be able to survive in water longer than in a dry environment? But if you lower the pH enough their shells should dissolve and that would be the end of them for sure.
I use pool acid to lower pH and CO2, and vinegar.

GL

Ya I was going to leave it dry. But the empty tank in the house didn’t smell very good at all. So I changed out to RO and tossed in some new carbon. But might aswell toss in some viniger, might help clean up the equipment also. I don’t want to add other chemicals. My hope was to just add salt and have a tank again.

 

[KrisReef]

Oh, that is different than what I was focused upon (Total annihilation!) If you want to use the RO water to mix later then add chlorine, wait a day and then add declor (or other tap water conditioning product ) to remove the chlorine.