What eats Vermetid snails?

[Terry Le]

Same here i was doing coral snow to get rid of red slime but i took care of Vermitid snails. I used to have them throw out cobwebs on all my rocks

 

[Ghost-X9]

I too have those pests and the only effective predator is the tank keeper. I’ve used whelks and bumble bee snails. Even though they do prey on vermetids they don’t eliminate them fast enough. You have to get a lot or predate snails to me a dent. So they aren't working for me coral snow works to a degree. Not so much in the main display but in the overflow an filter chamber of my sump there were a lot of dead ones. Another and riskier approach i’ve done was to take out the rocks and physically scraping them off the rocks while trying to keep my corals hydrated. Not doing that again. Luckily I didn’t lose any corals during that event.

I have come to the conclusion of tearing down the tank and removing all the corals off the rocks and sterilizing and re-cycle the rocks before reintroducing them in the main display. The fish and inverts will have to be place in their own quarantine during this time also. All of the snails will have to get their shells cleaned since they contribute to inenvertably spreading these pests.

 

[code4]

My tank was full of them. I manually removed where I could and added Bumble Bee snails. I did 20 snails in my 180 gallon. I no longer have them. I also have a Six Line but don't know if it did anything I do know the snails did.

Same here in my 40 breeder. My display tank has them also. Considering moving my 6 line wrasse into it. Then the bumblebee snails that are in quarantine. I also am removing rocks during water changes and scrubbing them off. Doing this in tank water in a bucket.

I will not allow them to destroy my tank. If I end up breaking it down I will get all new overflow pipes.

 

[exnisstech]

If had them in every tank I've ever had. Population seems to fluctuate and ussually lessens as time goes on. I would never sterilize live rock and restart. I would rather deal with vermitids than a dry rock start up.
Sixlines won't touch them. I currently have 3 tanks, each with a sixline and there are vermitids in all 3 tanks.

 

[ReefED!]

Same here i was doing coral snow to get rid of red slime but i took care of Vermitid snails. I used to have them throw out cobwebs on all my rocks

I didn’t have any success doing this and the coral snow just settles onto everything in the sump and on the rock

 

[Terry Le]

I didn’t have any success doing this and the coral snow just settles onto everything in the sump and on the rock

How much corals snow you used? Did you do it DIY coral snow? I haven’t done it lately but whenever I did it my water in my 375 gallons reef clear up in an hour after pump back on

 

[ReefED!]

I didn’t have any success doing this and the coral snow just settles onto everything in the sump and on the rock

How much corals snow you used? Did you do it DIY coral snow? I haven’t done it lately but whenever I did it my water in my 375 gallons reef clear up in an hour after pump back on

I did both and honestly I was pretty aggressive with it

I wanted to make sure I could see their little strands gunked up with calcium carbonate

For what it’s worth @Ryan - Serious Reefs brought this up in a video not long ago and said in their testing it didn’t seem to work well

 

[DolphinDude09]

I would recomend something like a royal gramma or longnose hawkfish. personally when I added my juvenile hawkfish in with my clowns I thought they may show aggression (especially because they breed) by the didn't seem to care at all. and the royal gramma, while not being very aggressive can simply just hide in a place your clowns won't be able to reach. If you want something swimming and with alot of personality I would recommend the hawkfish more though.

 

[slingfox]

I used to have several thousand vermitids covering the underside of my rockwork. I removed all the rockwork and scrubbed the rocks down manually. This got rid of most of the vermitids but many (easily hundreds, maybe 1000+) were in crevasses I could not access. I then fed coral snow once every day or two for six weeks straight, added 50+ bumblebee snails (one per every 2 gallons of display tank volume), and switched from mostly pellet feeding to mostly rinsed frozen food, and the vermitid population plummeted and stayed low. I now add bumblebees a few times every year and do coral snow once a week. I really hate these vermitids!

Note: I have used multiple containers of calcium carbonate in my 140g system and it does not clog up of build up anywhere. I blow off my rocks with every water change and siphon my sand regularly. I clean up sump many once or twice a year but even there there is very limited buildup of detritus (eg, a few mm a year at most). My Reefmat and protein skimmer seem to clear up the coral snow fairly quickly after I let it circulate in the display tank for 30 minutes with the return pump turned off.

 

[winxp_man]

I have a few rocks from my 150 setup that I keep still in the 150 setup. I didn’t move them to the 300 to avoid this if possible. I will dip and inspection and run all coral going into the tank for 60-90 days before moving them to the 300. Will do my best to keep disease and crazy things like the Verma’s out. I have about 20 bumble bees in my 150 bare bottom right now all over the verms haha.

My 300 I used new rock and bleach + muriatic acid bath. So basically new tried rock.