Help ID weird growth on monti

[Duncan Tse]

Can anybody help id what these red tube like growth coming out of my rainbow monti are? I only started seeing it after I fragged up my colony. I have tried scraping off with tweezers but it doesn't seem to be coming off

 

[Duncan Tse]

After doing some more googling I found it might be vermetid snails. Anyway to get rid fothem when it's on the monti?

 

[ReefLab]

you could try a bumblebee snail or manual removal. they are quite persistent. most tanks have them IME and they aren't really detrimental to coral. just unsightly.

 

[vetteguy53081]

vermetids are harder to remove unless large enough to break off or cut off with bone cutters.
Your best bet will be to cover the openings of tubes with gel Super glue being careful not to get the gel on the montis.

 

[NowGlazeIT]

Cut the corals up to the flesh and dip to avoid those guys. If you break the shell they can crawl/float off and build a new one, they look like tiny worms inside that shell. so if you already got a lot, you can manage with predators like the bumble bee snail or just by hand when ever you see a new one pop up. I had so many I decided to just start over when I upgraded tanks, transferring only corals and fish.
GL reefer

 

[X-37B]

I have 12 bumblebee snails in my 120 and they help.
I think I will always have some though.

 

[FinsFan13]

After doing some more googling I found it might be vermetid snails. Anyway to get rid fothem when it's on the monti?

Manual removal may work, but it will take a good bit of time and effort, depending on how many you can find.

 

[FinsFan13]

Manual removal may work, but it will take a good bit of time and effort, depending on how many you can find.

I havent seen them on coral before though, so my insights may not be applicable.

 

[homer1475]

FInally got sick of looking at them on my sunset monti(all spiked up and covered in coral). They grow faster then the coral can smother them, so you end up with spires of monti, looks absolutely gross!

What I finally did(although my monti is quite large and well established) was just to break off the spires, and take bone cutters and scrape them down to the bare coral skeleton.