Miami Reef
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Here’s an interesting pest: the trochus snail.
I regret ever adding these “beneficial” clean-up crew. They spawn and end up everywhere in my system, including the sump area which powers the whole system.
They live in my skimmer and pumps. They live anywhere in the sump. 3 went inside my Echotech return pump and broke it today.
I have 2 return pumps, and the snails broke the one that the chiller was connected to. I had to go outside to close the chiller, to prevent it from breaking, and lo and behold:
More stinking trochus snails.
They seem to really risk clogging my system’s pipes. They are just another way a tank can crash, and I don’t want them anymore.
My goal is to get up before the lights are on and collect the ones on the glass. I plan to stick them in my 10 gallon tank (full of diatoms). Basically manual removal in hopes to limit their population. I don’t want mass spawnings anymore. If I see them, I will remove them. I rather use urchins or anything else.
I just regret adding these snails. It probably couldn’t have been avoided since they come in on live rocks and corals. I would have had them regardless.
Maybe I should add a puffer fish lol
I regret ever adding these “beneficial” clean-up crew. They spawn and end up everywhere in my system, including the sump area which powers the whole system.
They live in my skimmer and pumps. They live anywhere in the sump. 3 went inside my Echotech return pump and broke it today.
I have 2 return pumps, and the snails broke the one that the chiller was connected to. I had to go outside to close the chiller, to prevent it from breaking, and lo and behold:
More stinking trochus snails.
They seem to really risk clogging my system’s pipes. They are just another way a tank can crash, and I don’t want them anymore.
My goal is to get up before the lights are on and collect the ones on the glass. I plan to stick them in my 10 gallon tank (full of diatoms). Basically manual removal in hopes to limit their population. I don’t want mass spawnings anymore. If I see them, I will remove them. I rather use urchins or anything else.
I just regret adding these snails. It probably couldn’t have been avoided since they come in on live rocks and corals. I would have had them regardless.
Maybe I should add a puffer fish lol
