Vermited snails- help!
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roberthu526
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Awesome! I will give it a shot!
dhof
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I haven't tried the coral snow, but I have vermetid snails all over the place in my tank. I can't honestly say they really disturb anything, but I occasionally wonder if they irritate a coral here and there.
I discovered that using a small acrylic tube is pretty useful (the kind of acrylic tube that is hollow like a straw, not a solid rod). You can break off the tube to the base quite easily, and then you can cover the base of the vermetid so that the base is inside the acrylic tube. Once inside the acrylic tube, a few turns of the acrylic tube breaks the entire thing loose off the rock.
My bristle worms immediately come out and eat the residual vermetid snail up, and I just leave the tube shells on the substrate. My pistol shrimp must have an entire cavern of the vermetid shells in his lair because the shells are gone the next day off of the substrate.
Some of the ones that are too difficult to get centered into the acrylic tube can easily be smashed to smithereens with the acrylic tube. This sounds like a lot of work, but in 2 or 3 passes I have a majority of tubes completely gone now.
I discovered that using a small acrylic tube is pretty useful (the kind of acrylic tube that is hollow like a straw, not a solid rod). You can break off the tube to the base quite easily, and then you can cover the base of the vermetid so that the base is inside the acrylic tube. Once inside the acrylic tube, a few turns of the acrylic tube breaks the entire thing loose off the rock.
My bristle worms immediately come out and eat the residual vermetid snail up, and I just leave the tube shells on the substrate. My pistol shrimp must have an entire cavern of the vermetid shells in his lair because the shells are gone the next day off of the substrate.
Some of the ones that are too difficult to get centered into the acrylic tube can easily be smashed to smithereens with the acrylic tube. This sounds like a lot of work, but in 2 or 3 passes I have a majority of tubes completely gone now.
Ligershark
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someone had success with emeralds.
www.reef2reef.com
Emerald Crab and Vermetid Snails
I just glanced into my tank and saw something that filled my with joy. My emerald crab, hanging upside down, ripping vermetid snails off of a rock that was covered and eating them. She also eats bubble algae and leaves all my fish, corals and inverts alone. I will sell her for $200 if anybody...
www.reef2reef.com
