Vermetid Snail Predator?

[timry2]

I’m going to pick up some bumblebee’s for general house keeping. I never over fed the tank, but once they were in the water column they remained established. The got into the overflows and i had no idea how bad it was. 6 months it started getting out of control and at a year I was overwhelmed. I acid washed and then bleach soaked every piece of rock and im still working on the sand. Didn’t realize i had about 400 lbs of rock between the refugium and DT. As I mentioned earlier, I will QT everything as if its a fish for 90 day’s

 

[timry2]

If you crush the base, you have to make sure to smash it and hope there’s no eggs floating around. No easy way to manually remove them

 

[moz71]

Wow! Destroy as many as possible by crushing the base and yes, BB's do work. I added 30 to my 120 and a few months later, all gone. It will be a slow process.

I guess I need about dozen or 2 more as well! Perhaps a there is a right percentage to get. I only have a dozen and half in 125. Can never hurt I guess to get more! Preset little creatures too!

 

[moz71]

I’m fully aware of that. His question is about bumble bee snails which was addressed
Mentioned of other methods- common sense says too many to break off or glue

I know! I just couldn’t resist! All good intentions!

 

[Daniel@R2R Verified Admin]

I hate vermetids!

 

[Budman93]

Had these in my last tank but they werent completely overrunning everything. Probably would of if I didnt run a massive protein skimmer. That tank died to dinos though so I guess you pick your poison.

 

[vetteguy53081]

I hate vermetids!

You?
Anything I hate more than a vermetid snail is TWO of them

 

[LgTas]

My vermitids are confined to hard to reach places... seems my short spine urchin inadvertently munches their little tubes in any accessible spots.

 

[Smite]

They sure do suck.

I'm going vermetid hunting in the next couple days.I plan to take out the larger ones I can reach. I've tried coral snow in the past but was told I should feed before I dose the coral snow, which I wasn't doing before. The goal is to get them feeding, dose the snow and they are forced to pull that in along with the food. It's supposed to bind them up and starve them out over time. It needs to be done nightly/daily for an extended period of time.

Has anyone had success with this method?

I've added bumblebees but probably not enough. I just feel like they chased my normal snail cuc off the rocks.

 

[ghostwheel]

Hello, some battle I win. First some information - some food contain shrimps so when you dose some, some fish will eat shrimps simple. So i take off some Vermetus about 20 - mix all in blender. frozen with liquid food from AF, and feed them about 3 per week, and now some fish various in different times eat them from rock. mayby this way will be good.

 

[natashakay.]

Bumblebee snails are your best bet. It will take some time to notice a change in the population and they also don’t eat the tube part just the snail inside so you will still see that in your tank but it won’t have the snail in it anymore.