Acro eating snail...i couldn't believe it

[bumpkin]

Just when you think you have a grasp on the pests and dangers. I got a small mariculture colony a couple of weeks ago and had noticed what I assumed was a small hermit on it periodically. I tried to grab it a few times but it was to far inside of the acro branches. Thought it wasn't an issue so I let it be. I was able to grab it yesterday evening and realized it was a snail. I thought hey cool little freebie. I dropped him on the sand bed and got dressed for work. When I was leaving I stopped for one last look and saw the little bugger and crawled onto a frag that was on the sand. I thought you confused little critter and went to work. When I got home this morning I was inspecting the tank with my blue light and saw tissue missing on another prized stick. This little snail was crawling around the acro leaving a trail of missing tissue in his wake. Who ever heard of a acro eating snail!!! I goggled it and sure enough that's what it is. Just for pest eliminating purposes I put him in a bayer dip at 15 ml to a cup for 15 mins. Worthless he still crawles. I'm going to add pics so maybe others will recognize one in their tank and get it out sooner than I did. SMH what next lol

 

[bumpkin]

The beast

 

[bumpkin]

 

[Mr. Microscope]

Very interesting! I've never heard of this either. Thanks for sharing.

 

[bumpkin]

Anyone know of another dip or anything else to try before I dispatch it?

 

[bumpkin]

Revive dip useless

 

[droblack]

Try iodine dip or fw dip.

 

[pickupman66]

Hammer.....

 

[bumpkin]

I have always been afraid of either of those dips on acros. They might be fine I just don't have any experience with them and have heard bad things. I was trying things that I knew were gentle for new stressed arrivals. Even though I ended up way over dosing the revive for twice the time limit. I changed the water out and he is still kicking. I'm getting the feeling that anything that will kill it will also nuke an acro.

 

[bumpkin]

Hammer sounds good I was thinking slingshot and brick wall lol

 

[Newreef15]

Wow tanks for sharing did you try Coral RX on it?

 

[bumpkin]

Don't have any coral rx but I've heard it's similar to revive

 

[DFW]

That is a large enough snail to remove manually. The baby ones would likely succumb to the Bayer dip.

 

[bumpkin]

Perhaps I'm not convinced though. He didn't even appear stunned.

 

[Sense of nature]

Old thread bump, just found the exact looking snail eating my birds nest colony!!
Anyone ever figure out what species it is.... Not that it really matters

 

[that Reef Guy]

Bayer

 

[neuwave]

I've had them before. Several years ago but luckily I removed them in time before it was able to set up a population.

 

[Chris155hp]

Yup I had the same problem

 

[GlassMunky]

15ml of beyer is nothing...... pour the stuff into the dip container untill its milk white and you cant see through it. Nothing with a nervous system will survive.
i have NEVER EVER had a single acro have any bad effects from beyer dips. in fact, 90% of them have full PE in the dip

 

[jcdeng]

you cant take it out of the sps colony with a tweezer or something?