vermitid snail

[loup]

So I'm starting to see more and more of these snail forming on my live rock and clam. I'm getting worry that they'll one day overrun my tank. They're most harmless unless they put out their "feeding web" and it happen to touch the sps. Any one have any susggestion it getting rid of them?

 

[Nu2SW]

OK I am confused, What and where am I suppose to be looking?

Am I blind???????

 

[Justin74]

Theyre the lil pipe shaped things by the patches of coraline on both sides of the rock, theres 2 in that pic I see.

I have all kinds of these guys in my tank, I mean alot.Big fat ones to lil guys like that in the pic. I havent encountered any problems, sometimes it would disturb some polyps on my cabbage coral, but I havent see any stretched out over my sps either, though the flow around the SPS should be a lil too strong to be doing that though. I know both my yellow and sixline wrasse dont mess with them, so I wouldnt know about a "reef safe" fish that would as those are my most predatorial, oh, and my Copperband too but he doesnt mess with em either.


-Justin

 

[loup]

Yep the two brown pipe looking thing. No fish or shrimp that would keep them in check, well that not good news. They seem to be multiplying at a fast rate in my tank and my poor clam has them all over his shell. There's probably less than 50+ of them at the moment but they were only 10 a few month ago. Guess its manual labor, pull rock out and pluck them off.

 

[Justin74]

I was just gonna suggest that. Thats what I did to one before I knew what they were and just saw that it was keeping from one coral opening up alot. Theres a checks and balances on everything it seems, there may be one, my knowledge is limited maybe Matt would have an idea. Im sure theres gotta be something out there, question may be if it's reef safe or not though..Id think like a parrot fish or something thats a hardcore muncher like it.

-Justin

 

[late2wake]

I found an interesting article on them. Near the end of the article, it discusses possible fish that may eradicate them.
http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2005-01/rs/index.php

 

[duec22]

I've got a ton of them in my tank also. So far I've never been able to attribute any problems to them. I've never had a problem with them hurting my SPS either. In fact a couple of my caps have some really interesting pillars on my caps that have formed by the cap encrusting and growing up the tube.

 

[MandM]

The only problem we've had with them is getting poked and cut from them when we move LR. The break off easily and the sharp ends of the tubes go right through surgical gloves.

 

[Nu2SW]

OHHHHH I see... I couldnt see it whiel I was at work (busy with customers).

I kow I have a worm that comes out of a rock that looks like that, but its not a hard shell. Unless the shell is inside the rock cavity.