Vermetid Snails killing my corals Help please!!

[ahmedsaleh]

I restarted my tank, all new dry rock, sterilized everything checked all the corals in quarantine tank
Now I'm afraid to transfer it again with the corals rock
Any suggestions

 

[pisanoal]

I restarted my tank, all new dry rock, sterilized everything checked all the corals in quarantine tank
Now I'm afraid to transfer it again with the corals rock
Any suggestions

Quarantine them, inspect regularly. Cut away as much dead skeleton or rock base as you can. If on a frag plug, cut it off, put it on a new frag plug. I would inspect everything very thoroughly twice a week. When you havent seen any for 2 or 3 months, I'd say you are good.

If you still have snails, be careful. They can carry them back in too

What kind of coral?
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[ahmedsaleh]

Thanks for your answer
I haver lps hammers frog brains polyps and montipora I removed all what I can see with
Dremel even the Snails shell all cleaned also super glue the corals branches

 

[Isayso]

Good. Luck buddy
Let us know

 

[MurphyLong]

This may be purely anecdotal, but I picked up a rock that had nearly a dozen vermetid snails, and didn't realize it until I saw the mucous webs flying out after stirring up the sand bed. I decided to bury the rock in the sand and left it there for 2 weeks, and when I flipped it back over, the tubes were hollow, and haven't done any mucous strings since then. Maybe they can't traverse in the sand?

I know burying all your rocks in sand isn't a "viable" answer, but I only had 1 rock which made it simple.

 

[Isayso]

Maybe they starved and died
I've never seen snail leaving the tube

 

[bmxman37]

anyone find any better cures for these.... i didn't know what they were at first when there was 2 under one of my montis and thought it was kind of cool how they cast out like a fishing line... fast forward a few months..... and i have little fishing lines all over my tank

 

[Isayso]

Sorry buddy. Nothing worked for me.
I keep breaking. The ones that I can reach

 

[fishguy597]

Update, still screwed...
Nuked 3/4 of my rock, inspected /removed snails from the lr and corals( multiple times). Came back with a vengeance, I have little ones all over my tank.

 

[Isayso]

I feel your concerns, but that 1/4 of rocks that wasn't nuked probably contained enough Snail to cover all the clean rocks,

 

[ivans]

I would add a little bit from my experience with battle against vermitides.
I had them a lot. Especially the smaller ones. I've noticed their activity (I mean nets) after corals feeding by Preis V-Power and others similar things. Also after some movements of the rock, sand etc inside the tank. My tank is populated by several tangs, chromises, clown and six line wrasse. There are two hermits and one pistol shrimp. I feed them only by flacks and granulas.
So, I've stopped feed corals by V-Power, optimized and increased flow (there are no dead zones, and as a result no mud). And voila - there are no vermitides! I've understood this just recently. They disappeared gradually. And corals are thriving.

 

[Isayso]

Did they starved to death??

 

[Tripod1404]

My leopard wrasse (M. meleagris) decimated the population of vermetid snails. It actually first started picking up small colonista snails. When colonista snail population dropped, leopard gained interest in vermetid snails.

Leopard wrasses are long known to be snail eaters. They have been used by many to control parasitic pyramidellid snails. However, this is the 1st time I seen one eating vermetid snails. I had others that never showed any intrest to vermetid snails, but this guy loves to eat them.

Of course like any predator-prey situation, it did not wipe them out. There are still some at places that leopard cant reach. But the population is greatly reduced.

 

[ivans]

Did they starved to death??

I suppose so.

 

[Isayso]

Well that's a thought.... Remove all the fish and stop feeding the tank for a month or more

 

[ivans]

I guess that we have to stop doing things provoking net releasing.

 

[Isayso]

Net release is a way of feeding, just wondering if we remove the fish and don't feed for a month or so... will they starve???

 

[ivans]

I didn't remove fishes and snails starved.

 

[becon776]

stopping feeding will do nothing. unless its for like a year. no changes in feeding will do anything ti help. they will be right there right as rain when yiu feed again

 

[DarkSkyForever]

I had a population of these start taking over in my tank, I stopped broadcast feeding, switched to pellets and only would drop a few in at a time until the fish stopped eating.

The snails eventually starved. I also would constantly crush the bases of their tubes so they'd have to spend energy on building a new one.

It took about two weeks before I stopped seeing new tubes. Now I don't have any in my tank and resumed my normal feeding habits.