Vermited Snails - Yes

[World Citizen]

I am winning the battle... Most of these tubes are death.

But... let's just say I had a problem to deal with.
I am fine. No worries here.

(IR Camera)

 

[IceNein]

You have (had) a vermetid dominated reef tank.

 

[World Citizen]

You have (had) a vermetid dominated reef tank.

1 quarter of it yes.. The rest didn't grow like this. But in this specific part they exploded.

 

[twentyleagues]

What are you doing or did you do that is working? Lets say its info for a friend.....

 

[Gumbies R Us]

Yeah I’m curious to know how you had an explosion of vermited snails in your tank.

 

[World Citizen]

@twentyleagues @Gumbies R Us

I was running a lot of NPS corals and fed them 8 times a day with a mixture of finefoods. The corals looked great but the Vermitted snail took control.
I did this for about 1 year and decided things need to change.

I removed the NPS corals and stoped feeding. Now, about 6 months later I almost never see a fresh new red tube. They are still in the tank (can never get rid of them), but let's hope this reset is going to help.

I now added a lot a bumblebee snails and am in the proces of removing the tubes. I brush them off with a toothbrush and let the rest be. New vermitted snails should be devoured by the bumbles.

If I am ready with the cleaning I will add the NPS back and will start feeding again. But this time the army of Bumbles are ready to keep it in check.

I hope.

 

[Elira_6301]

I am winning the battle... Most of these tubes are death.

But... let's just say I had a problem to deal with.
I am fine. No worries here.

(IR Camera)

What are those?

 

[AydenLincoln]

What are those?

Vermetid snails

 

[125mph]

I had vermetid snails for the last 5 years... They covered all my live rock, thousands of little spikes just like yours. I tried a lot of things, and brought around 40 bumble bee snails to battle them. I broke off what I could by hand. It seem to help but actually it was wishful thinking.. The vermetid multiply faster than consumed by bumble bees.

But today I am finally ride of vermetid through the most unlikely solution...

I had a bad dino outbreak, and the toxins wiped out most of my snails (turbos, etc) but the interesting thing is, it anniliated my vermetid too.. It only took a few weeks for this to happen. All my live rock must have been covered with them and now its completely gone.

So you want vermetid gone? Better get some dinos!

 

[Red_Beard]

Mine have been replaced by hundreds of little fan worms. They fuzz the underside of the rock only and come off with genle scrubbing. Definitely a good change.