How long did it take you to eradicate pyramid snails?
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Steve C.S.
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I've been going about 3 weeks now trying to get rid of them. just when i think they are gone, I find a few more. From what I hear it can take a while, just keep at it. The ones I found today were very small and I only found one egg mass so I think I'm about to beat them. I noticed i find a lot more on my squmosa than on my maxima. I found five very small ones in the basal opening so check them all over. I know this doesn't help much but just keep at it and you will win in the end.
Steve
Steve
I've seen snail pictures posted on Reef Central and I don't have any good ones of my own. I wish I could help.
These snails are smaller than a grain of rice, cone shaped (pyrimid), and usually white. They usually spend the day hidden near the byssus gland and travel to the edge of the mantle where they become vampires sucking clam juice.
The best treatment is prevention.
I let my guard down with a new clam and now I'm paying the price. Every couple days I pull the clams out (except for the one fastened to the rockwork) and pluck, scrap, squish and brush the snails off.
Something that would help me is to find out what their egg masses look like.
Paul
These snails are smaller than a grain of rice, cone shaped (pyrimid), and usually white. They usually spend the day hidden near the byssus gland and travel to the edge of the mantle where they become vampires sucking clam juice.
The best treatment is prevention.
I let my guard down with a new clam and now I'm paying the price. Every couple days I pull the clams out (except for the one fastened to the rockwork) and pluck, scrap, squish and brush the snails off.
Something that would help me is to find out what their egg masses look like.
Paul
yeah, i had some flatworms from some contamination source. i ahven't seen a flatworm in months, either. i only feed these guys 1-2x per week. so they eat anything they can find. it's fun to watch the bigger one chase the littler one around. the it's like a follow the leader game through the monti branches.
however, they like to pick at my pocillaporas. no major damage, though.
however, they like to pick at my pocillaporas. no major damage, though.
yeah, maybe, since it seems they carefully inspect the branches, eyes darting this way and that, them boom! they dive in. it looks like the polyps retract, then about 1/2 hour later, the polyps are out. so maybe they don't actually nip the polyps (i guess the poci. would have massive tissue recession if all the polyps were being eaten).
I've used sixline wrasses in the past with great success,however; six line wrasses seem a bit too small to go after larger snails with any amount of enthusiasm. I acquired a juvenile red coris (Coris Gaimard) a couple months ago, for erradcication of pyramidellid snails on both tridacnid clams and trochus niloticus snails. Within two weeks, not a snail could be found. The coris is extremely active in seeking out snails and other parasites on both the clams and snails, rooting around in the sand around the byssus opening. The clams don't seem to mind, and I have NO snails left. I've been told that the parasitic pyramidellid snails have roughly a two-three week life cycle, with no planular larval stage; transformation occurs on the substrate on which the eggs were laid.
Note--the wrasse I'm speaking of will eventually outgrow my tank, and possibly harrass small crustaceans. Once his juvenile stripes begin to fade, I'll find a home for him and start over with a juvenile again.:bum:
I've used sixline wrasses in the past with great success,however; six line wrasses seem a bit too small to go after larger snails with any amount of enthusiasm. I acquired a juvenile red coris (Coris Gaimard) a couple months ago, for erradcication of pyramidellid snails on both tridacnid clams and trochus niloticus snails. Within two weeks, not a snail could be found. The coris is extremely active in seeking out snails and other parasites on both the clams and snails, rooting around in the sand around the byssus opening. The clams don't seem to mind, and I have NO snails left. I've been told that the parasitic pyramidellid snails have roughly a two-three week life cycle, with no planular larval stage; transformation occurs on the substrate on which the eggs were laid.
Note--the wrasse I'm speaking of will eventually outgrow my tank, and possibly harrass small crustaceans. Once his juvenile stripes begin to fade, I'll find a home for him and start over with a juvenile again.:bum:
