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Hello All,
I would like to explain my tactic on how I have started to kill and push back my population of vermetid snails. I started to notice a few or I should say a lot of my SPS and LPS receding, with SPS it looked like RTN, and with the LPS the nasty jelly dissolve (LPS version of RTN). I started down the path that most reef keepers follow, you start to question water parameters or worse yet fish. I noticed one thing that puzzled me, the water parameters checked out and the more difficult SPS corals were completely fine.
I put it together and realized that the stony coral which required high flow and light did better than those which weren't in a similar area, that is when I noticed the web of slime. Now that I identified the guilty party the next step was to take care of this problem. I researched and researched solutions but didn't find much in regards to natural predators that wouldn't kill other things in my tank, and I was not about to remove rocks from my tank to kill them. So I decided to take matters into my own hand and I purchased an icepick to dig them out of the rockwork, this worked for the one I could see and reach but the ones which were inverted under an overhang proved difficult, so I decided to take a could days (more like weeks) to think about a solution.
Then it hit me I had some leftover aiptasia-x under the tank as that battle was done with THEM , I went forward with my thought of flooding the tube with this solution to see if it would kill the snail. Sure enough, it worked, I gave it a couple of days before I declared victory and dug one out of its encrusted rockwork, and to my delight it was dead. Now by no means am I an expert in regards or am I endorsing the RedSea product but it works.
Start by placing your pumps in feed mode or turning them off for a bit while you dose the tubes. Fill the tubes very slow till you see slight overflow, once filled move to the next, and repeat. Keep the pump down for about 15-20mins then you should fine to resume pump operations. Monitor the snails which have been dosed and you should notice during your next feeding your tank is web-free.
Happy Reef Keeping.
I would like to explain my tactic on how I have started to kill and push back my population of vermetid snails. I started to notice a few or I should say a lot of my SPS and LPS receding, with SPS it looked like RTN, and with the LPS the nasty jelly dissolve (LPS version of RTN). I started down the path that most reef keepers follow, you start to question water parameters or worse yet fish. I noticed one thing that puzzled me, the water parameters checked out and the more difficult SPS corals were completely fine.
I put it together and realized that the stony coral which required high flow and light did better than those which weren't in a similar area, that is when I noticed the web of slime. Now that I identified the guilty party the next step was to take care of this problem. I researched and researched solutions but didn't find much in regards to natural predators that wouldn't kill other things in my tank, and I was not about to remove rocks from my tank to kill them. So I decided to take matters into my own hand and I purchased an icepick to dig them out of the rockwork, this worked for the one I could see and reach but the ones which were inverted under an overhang proved difficult, so I decided to take a could days (more like weeks) to think about a solution.
Then it hit me I had some leftover aiptasia-x under the tank as that battle was done with THEM , I went forward with my thought of flooding the tube with this solution to see if it would kill the snail. Sure enough, it worked, I gave it a couple of days before I declared victory and dug one out of its encrusted rockwork, and to my delight it was dead. Now by no means am I an expert in regards or am I endorsing the RedSea product but it works.
Start by placing your pumps in feed mode or turning them off for a bit while you dose the tubes. Fill the tubes very slow till you see slight overflow, once filled move to the next, and repeat. Keep the pump down for about 15-20mins then you should fine to resume pump operations. Monitor the snails which have been dosed and you should notice during your next feeding your tank is web-free.
Happy Reef Keeping.