Vermetid Snails killing my corals Help please!!

I just had a web completely cover an Afro and another on a monti. These things are awful and I'm tearing my tank down to kill them all. Then im cooking all that rock. Forget this. It's awful
 
Stop over feeding. I've had hundreds in my tank. And not one coral died. The only way that I got rid of them. Is by not over feeding. Basically I starved them to death.
 
These bloody snails are killing my corals.

No way to get rid of them, I have thousands and thousands on all the rocks.
I tried with Chelmon rostratus, with yellow and green wrasses, with Forcipiger longirostris... no way.

Under full light the corals grow on them, in the shadow they overwhelm corals... so I have good looking acroS from above... but horribly bleached on the bottom.


PLEASE HELP ME!!! :hammer::hammer::hammer:
 

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I had a large one of these. it was growing a couple of inches from a brain coral I got. I didn't think much of it for a few months. When I noticed that it kept stealing the food i target fed my brain I broke it off but it was too late. now I have dozens of small ones everywhere including the back wall of my DT so I can't use glue on them so I'm going to wait until they're a bit bigger and pry them off. If you let them grow too big they release spores or something and you'll end up with an infestation. Although they may not directly harm coral they may cause some stress with their strings and hundreds of strings can make the tank look ugly.
 
I I used to have a few of them but now
Are thousands...of and they getting bigger and bigger....the tube is Flipping hard ...just wondering how much calcium can they
Absorb???? Thousands of them for sure
Can deplete calcium in the tank, ,,,
I need to find a biological fix..... ..fish or .. crab..
Or some things that will Feed on these things
 
Great advice, I use epoxy or reef glue on them after I break off their tube-like extension. Many large wrasses will eat them too, but most wrasses that eat them will also eat shrimps & small inverts.
 
wzrdbear said:
vermetid snails are plankton eaters, not coralavores. These mesosnails secrete mucus that catch detritus and planktonic material that they then pull in to eat. If there are huge numbers of them, say several hundred within 2.5 inches or so, then a coral might get bugged, but by no means will the snails eat a coral. You have another culprit it sounds like. Those arent numerous enough to even slightly irritate a coral. I would watch your tank at night by spot checking it with a red lense flashlight. I would bet there is something in there you havent seen yet.
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BOIL THEM...
Syringe with boiling water from mircowave.
Blast it down tube, done.

To get and ID on their location kick up the bottom a little, so they throw their skank out.

In addition I stopped with Reef Chili at night. Cutting down on stuff in water column.
 
Easy said than done.. I've got hundreds of them...
Really we need to find a biological controller
Or an additive / chemical that not hurt
The corals and fish
 
I cooked my rocks for 4 months total and crushed the snails every time I would switch the water. They were spread out on every single rock, billions of them!! And they hurt!! They killed several of my corals by spreading across them and or having their mucus web spread all over them. There were only a few left when I put the rocks back into my tank last month, but now they are spreading again!

I used to have a six line and I think he took care of the problem. But I had to get rid of him (and destroy my rock display in the meantime) because he was bullying and killing other fish in my tank. Tomorrow I'm going to see about getting a yellow wrasse and see if that helps any. Any other suggestions to get rid of these things??
 
Two weeks ago bought a melanurus wrasse
Based on a few feedbacks
He is not bad or aggressive as other wrasses
Like the Christmas wrasse, ornate, ornatissimus.
Right now he is in the qt. Has been eating pellets, flakes,and frozen misys
This kind supposed take care of them..
I really hope so
Will see... I will post update in a couple of weeks after it goes in the display tank
 
Wow! I just learned that these guys are a tank pest. I have thousands of them in my tank, and they do hurt. I cant pick up a piece of live-rock without their tubes scratching up my hands. However, my SPS and soft corals are thriving even with their presence. I have a six-line wrasse, but if he eats them it isn't fast enough.
 
Isayso said:
Two weeks ago bought a melanurus wrasse
Based on a few feedbacks
He is not bad or aggressive as other wrasses
Like the Christmas wrasse, ornate, ornatissimus.
Right now he is in the qt. Has been eating pellets, flakes,and frozen misys
This kind supposed take care of them..
I really hope so
Will see... I will post update in a couple of weeks after it goes in the display tank
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If you haven't added copper to your QT, you should put a piece of rock with the snails on it to see if he will consume them.
 
I had a purple tang once that had a thing for those little two-tentacle tube thingies that grow on the sandbed. Wiped 'em out. But I can't swear what any tang will take to.
 
OK folks....
thanks to sk8er for the great idea ...
sometimes we dont think..LOL:sad2:

I just grabbed a 2" rubble with tubesnails.. about 1" long
and I dropped in the QT..
after a couple of minutes the wrasse was going at it
the little tubesnails were gone fast the bigger ones are more resistant
because of the hard tube
unless I crash the tube...
here is a video of the wrasse, not a good quality ..was taken with the phone
but at 1.05 minutes you see clear the wrasse in action

VIDEO
 
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