Blasted Pyramid Snails!!

moliken said:
where was the egg mass? in the scutes or underneath the clam? u r at day 1 again ya know
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I think thats what it was anyway, in the scutes. And yeah, I know the battle is far from over... :(

The derasa and maxima are still isolated from the problem. Looking into ways to tupperware isolate everything, I may have to get creative...
 
moliken said:
i check mine 2 hrs after l/out and 2-3 before they come on, every day. but i don't take them out and scrub more than once a week, prolly like 10 days. but this is 5 weeks no bstrds, so i'm further along. i had them a long time ago, thought i got ridda them after a month of not seeing them, but i still had them. i did the process right the second time--2-3 months no snails, then i feel safe.i went a loong time free, but accidentally introduced them again through a friend's infected tank.
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Can I ask what you brought into you tank that infected it (coral, another clam...)?
 
moliken said:
if they are on turbos, they probably are not the pyrams, but rissoids. are they really small, cause pyrams are about the size of a grain of rice, while the rissoids ive seen on other snails are like a grain of sand. that's not the way to positively id them, but generally each are predators of different things.
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We have had pyrams on turbo snails when we removed our clams for a while. I use to have to pick them off the snails as well. They where the size of rice. Very easy to see when the snail was on the glass.
 
cfmx said:
Can I ask what you brought into you tank that infected it (coral, another clam...)?
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I'm not really sure to be honest. The crocea that is infected has been in the tank for nearly a year. The maxima and derasa which don't show any sign of infection thus far were added back in October. Given those timeframes, I'm inclined to think they didn't come on the clams but rather a snail or coral that was added more recently. No way to be sure though...
 
Jcohen9999 said:
Unfortunately, you are out numbered. I finally killed all mine off when I bombed for red flatworms...along with all the other beneficial inverts in my tank ( but that is another thread).

Once they were done with my clams they went after my snails with a vengeance. Check out this pics in this post: http://www.reefcentral.org/forums/showpost.php?p=14139379&postcount=317

Keep at it though maybe you'll have better luck than I.

Jeff
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Wow, your infestation looked pretty bad! Luckily, mine so far has stayed contained to a few snails a week on only one of my clams. I have done thorough checks of my other two clams as well as a sampling of my snails and haven't seen anything besides the two separate sightings (followed by cleanings) on my crocea.
 
Yeah...it sucked. And I didn't know what caused my clams to die (I thought it was a light bulb issue) so I bought yet another clam after the two I had died...just to add insult to injury.

I'm free of them now though as I have a derasa that seems to be doing really well...except when my clown shower it with sand of course.

Good luck with your snail hunting.

Jeff
 
Jcohen9999 said:
Yeah...it sucked. And I didn't know what caused my clams to die (I thought it was a light bulb issue) so I bought yet another clam after the two I had died...just to add insult to injury.

I'm free of them now though as I have a derasa that seems to be doing really well...except when my clown shower it with sand of course.

Good luck with your snail hunting.

Jeff
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Dang, bummer, but glad you figured it out and can now keep clams again! Hopefully I am in an uphill battle!

I've recently run into AEFW's attacking a couple of my prized SPS colonies, so fed up with the pests in the tank at this point. Will definitely be looking into a QT tank for ALL new adds (including CUC) as well as dipping all new corals from now on. These are battles I'd rather fight only once... Live and learn right? :)
 
absolutely, best of luck. i think the critical areas are isolation and sand replacement w/every scrub. i was negligent on sand replacing and that set my 5 weeks of work back to day 1. throw the sand AWAY!
 
if you can, try removing the sand, washing it and let it dry out for 2 weeks. then it should be like new dead sand again later for use.
 
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