I KNOW I have pyramid snails!!!

[ELLAS]

I need to know how to get rid of these little bastards!!! They are devouring my zoanthids, and now starting to have a taste for my monti's. Are there ANY natural predators that are reef safe? I am removing them manually but its a loosing battle, they are reproducing like mad, and I cant keep them in check..

What can I do? PLEASE...

 

[Micromussa]

I need to know how to get rid of these little bastards!!! They are devouring my zoanthids, and now starting to have a taste for my monti's. Are there ANY natural predators that are reef safe? I am removing them manually but its a loosing battle, they are reproducing like mad, and I cant keep them in check..

What can I do? PLEASE...

:blown:

 

[pagojoe]

I need to know how to get rid of these little bastards!!! They are devouring my zoanthids, and now starting to have a taste for my monti's. Are there ANY natural predators that are reef safe? I am removing them manually but its a loosing battle, they are reproducing like mad, and I cant keep them in check..

What can I do? PLEASE...

Well, you can take one and look at the protoconch under magnification, and see if the first couple of whorls are turned 90 degrees from the rest of the shell...If so, you actually DO have pyramidellids. The next thing you can do is check to see if something else is eating your zoanthids, like cryptic little aeolid nudibranchs hiding and reproducing amongst them. If not, and you've discovered some generalist-feeding pyramidellids (which I've never heard of, by the way, but it's possible?), you might try some of the standard wrasses that eat small snails, or even one of the "sand sifting stars," such as Luidia, which often feed on small pyramidellids (Turbonilla species).

Good luck,



Don