Vermetid gastropods. Time to get mid-evil!
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Jadran
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hello,
I was wondering was this the end of them? Or they slowly came back? These guys flourished in my aquarium, and I'm not to happy about it. when you observe carefully you can see the tinny little ones everywhere, on snails, bottom glass, clams, in tinny holes at rockscape....as with baby aiptasias impossible to reach and deal with every single one of them! After watching them for some time and reading up i decided to clean them up before I get myself in trouble again.. saw some damage bigger ones caused to one acro before I removed them .. so I really wouldn't like for all those small vermetids to grow big. Some natural predator would be great but, hmmm.. what is to be trusted with anemone, stonies, buttons, other snails (turbos) and clams..
Recently I risked with majestic juvenile, for now it behaves well, he nips on rocks but i cant tell with certainty it picks on vermetids
all other ideas are very welcome , too..
thx,
Mario
Stoney Mahony
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Use coral frag sheres. The ones that look like wire cutting pliers. It cuts right through the shell and kills with no mercy. I killed about 20 of them and they did not return. The fish love to eat up the guts while your crushing them. :smokin:
dippin61
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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8340636#post8340636 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by easttn
dippin61,
Those are fan worms, they are harmless. Here is a pic of the vermetid worm. Kill them with crazy glue.
Fan worm on left, V snail on right. The web does irritate SPS and can cause stress.
nope.. vermatid snails is what i have.. they just arent all slimed up atm.
http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2005-01/rs/index.php
and vermatid gastropods arent worms
most commonly known as snails 
exoticaquatix
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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8340436#post8340436 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by dippin61
you think you have it bad, this is about a 5 square inch section of my tank, now imagine the rest of a 55g...
i got these buggers on some rock i picked up froma local guy, i had a tube poke clean into my thumb, fully intact. that was more pain than any other reef tank critter has even inflicted on me. even a run-in with a lion fish.
his rock was covered in them and now they are popping up every where. thousands of them. is there anything that will kill them?....besides a friggin blow torch.
-nick
Jadran
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Well, I'm not the only one with this prob. I see... Yes these are definitely vermetids... aquarium born.... Fan worms look like this..
they were plentiful in my tank but majestic did quite a job on them..
So how do we fight these bastardos ? Noticed people talk about CBB . I cant have it.. Yellow tang wouldn't tolerate it in it's 120g. I tried it before (aiptasias) .. YT is my favorite fish, I have it over 5 years and cant sell it in order to get CBB.. Somehow I hope for that little majestic to work on them once the fan worms are gone, but... remains to be seen... I saw plenty of these snails in sump too... Can also imagine them growing inside pvc pipes, pumps and so...
they were plentiful in my tank but majestic did quite a job on them..
So how do we fight these bastardos ? Noticed people talk about CBB . I cant have it.. Yellow tang wouldn't tolerate it in it's 120g. I tried it before (aiptasias) .. YT is my favorite fish, I have it over 5 years and cant sell it in order to get CBB.. Somehow I hope for that little majestic to work on them once the fan worms are gone, but... remains to be seen... I saw plenty of these snails in sump too... Can also imagine them growing inside pvc pipes, pumps and so...
Serioussnaps
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i found them in my tank today with their little ****ing strings coming out of them...some of them i just broke right off the rock i hope this doesnt cause them to spread.....
i know how you can kill them...muriatic acid/vinegar bath for a couple of weeks on the rocks!!11
i know how you can kill them...muriatic acid/vinegar bath for a couple of weeks on the rocks!!11
Serioussnaps
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i found them in my tank today with their little ****ing strings coming out of them...some of them i just broke right off the rock i hope this doesnt cause them to spread.....
i know how you can kill them...muriatic acid/vinegar bath for a couple of weeks on the rocks!!11
i know how you can kill them...muriatic acid/vinegar bath for a couple of weeks on the rocks!!11
exoticaquatix
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id rather have live worms AND live rocks. can i just scrape them off or do they survive that?
-nick
-nick
Stoney Mahony
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Nope, scrape them off and they will die. I also had one go into my thumb and it broke off like a splinter. I agree the most painful freakin thing thats happened in my tank. I had do slice a hole with a razor and dig it out b/c every time you grabed a little piece with tweasers, it would break off. Now I have no mercy on them.
Serioussnaps
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yeah i went to breaking those mother ****ing bastards and it works... im not gonna go for all of them just the ones that **** with me on the wrong day
