Had or have some vermtids in my system never have been a problem maybe the hermit crab that is three years old likes them as a snack but have I have never seen it dining on them
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Congratulations!! Beautiful acro you got there.GUYS….
I’m very happy to report that in 10 months I have seen not even 1 Vermetid snail! Was gonna start a new thread, but figured I’d just post here.
I THINK I ACTUALLY FREAKING DID IT!!!
It’s cost me Dino’s, several headaches, and a weak biome trying to keep them out, but I think I finally did it. I will be posting video of the tank very soon and I’ll pan the camera everywhere close up so you guys can see.
Was it worth it…ahh…Yes….but no. I’ll never do it again. Live rock from here out. Dino’s are devastated for any reef and have significantly slowed my tank down as it needs constant attention daily, or should I say it did for months, but now we are finally getting somewhere and they are suppressed and almost gone.
Super pumped that I don’t have Vermetid snails coming up through the base of my dang Acro’s!
Congratulations!! Beautiful acro you got there.
Just wanted to add from personal experience, if your sps especially acros, monti or porites are stable and happy, they’ll actually outgrow and suffocate vermitids. Its quite interesting when that happens. The little stub protruding from the branch (which is a dead acro branch encrusted over by my porites) is actually an overgrown vermitid snail. It lost in the end.
What was your solution?GUYS….
I’m very happy to report that in 10 months I have seen not even 1 Vermetid snail! Was gonna start a new thread, but figured I’d just post here.
I THINK I ACTUALLY FREAKING DID IT!!!
It’s cost me Dino’s, several headaches, and a weak biome trying to keep them out, but I think I finally did it. I will be posting video of the tank very soon and I’ll pan the camera everywhere close up so you guys can see.
Was it worth it…ahh…Yes….but no. I’ll never do it again. Live rock from here out. Dino’s are devastated for any reef and have significantly slowed my tank down as it needs constant attention daily, or should I say it did for months, but now we are finally getting somewhere and they are suppressed and almost gone.
Super pumped that I don’t have Vermetid snails coming up through the base of my dang Acro’s!
What was your solution?
What was your solution?
GUYS….
I’m very happy to report that in 10 months I have seen not even 1 Vermetid snail! Was gonna start a new thread, but figured I’d just post here.
I THINK I ACTUALLY FREAKING DID IT!!!
It’s cost me Dino’s, several headaches, and a weak biome trying to keep them out, but I think I finally did it. I will be posting video of the tank very soon and I’ll pan the camera everywhere close up so you guys can see.
Was it worth it…ahh…Yes….but no. I’ll never do it again. Live rock from here out. Dino’s are devastated for any reef and have significantly slowed my tank down as it needs constant attention daily, or should I say it did for months, but now we are finally getting somewhere and they are suppressed and almost gone.
Super pumped that I don’t have Vermetid snails coming up through the base of my dang Acro’s!
GUYS….
I’m very happy to report that in 10 months I have seen not even 1 Vermetid snail! Was gonna start a new thread, but figured I’d just post here.
I THINK I ACTUALLY FREAKING DID IT!!!
It’s cost me Dino’s, several headaches, and a weak biome trying to keep them out, but I think I finally did it. I will be posting video of the tank very soon and I’ll pan the camera everywhere close up so you guys can see.
Was it worth it…ahh…Yes….but no. I’ll never do it again. Live rock from here out. Dino’s are devastated for any reef and have significantly slowed my tank down as it needs constant attention daily, or should I say it did for months, but now we are finally getting somewhere and they are suppressed and almost gone.
Super pumped that I don’t have Vermetid snails coming up through the base of my dang Acro’s!
Hi Reefahholic,
Congratulations on your apparent reprieve. I'm just wondering if your approach included your removing each rock in your reef, examining each rock for this snail, and then physically eliminating each snail (multiple times if necessary). (If so, I really, really certainly wish I could do that!) My tank is a 1st floor 180G DT (along with an assorted attachment of 135G, 70G, 80G and 80g units in my basement).
WHAT I REALLY NEED A BIOLOGICAL CONSUMER OF VERMITIDS! (OR, EVEN A CHEMICAL ELIMINATOR OF VERMITIDS!)
Otherwise Radiata's Law of Dynamic Aiptasia Entomology needs to be revised to include a Radita's Law of Dynamic Vermetus Entomology. (In either case the inclusion is for either the dynamically re-occurring Aiptsia or the dynamically re-occurring Vermetus.)
A simplification of the law is that "there is always one more Aiptasia" or "there is always one more Vermetid snail".
I haven’t read the entire thread, but someone posted they used reef snow to eradicate them. When they pulled in their slime, the reef snow sealed their entrance. If this has already been discussed, my apologies TL;DR….
They are preventable IME, but by the time you do this for every coral, it might take the fun out of it (if tank is large enough). Only method I've found to 100% prevent them is to only put live flesh in the tank. Remove all rock and plugs from frags where possible. If any portion of rock or skeleton remains, use a high power microscope to inspect and scrape away all micro vermitds. I also resorted to covering portions of rock or skeleton that weren't removable with epoxy.
And I'm not kidding about the microscope... If you try to do this without you will eventually miss some. Check out a torch skeleton (or the like) under a microscope and you will see a good amount of micro vermitds that are completely invisible to the eye. I've done this on a frag tank only because of I was selling out of it and wanted to try and provide truly pest free coral. It works but isn't fun if you're dealing with a lot of coral. I had millions of them in my 165 ULN Triton system - didn't bother anything really and were mostly under rocks and out of sight. The big ones are a different story, those do mess with coral health IME but never seen more than a few and are easy to take care of.
Depends on the size of the system and level of infestation you're trying to eradicate IMO. Yes, if you catch them when there are only a few it's easier to tackle and the snails can work, but there is a point of no return with vermitids in my experience. There's no reasonable amount of bumble bee snails that could have eradicated the vermitids coverage the undersides of all my rock in a 165 gallon. They would repopulate faster than the snails could take them out.I was starting what looked like the beginning of an infestation of the v snails in my nano. Added 3 bumblebee snails into my system. I have to disagree with OP about them not working. They’re slow, like slow slow but, letting them do their thing, after a couple of months…even the vermatid that was happily growing on my powerhead is gone. They’re slow moving snails and seem to be a waste but, I no longer see any of the pests.