VERMITIDS :( need plan of action.

Roboson · Dec 28, 2016

Get a pencil urchin, they sometimes eat immobile invertebrates.

Phil Cusimano · Dec 29, 2016

No ... No ... No, never boil the live rock! Just get the nutrient levels under control, that will usually do the trick. IMHO, FWIW.

Tyreef2016 · Dec 29, 2016

I had a huge outbreak in my 90 and i started getting really annoyed. Looked through lots of advice, this is the route i took.

I stopped feeding frozen and reefroids. I switched to pellet so the snails would start to starve.
BROKE as many of those buggers as possible with my turkey baster.

Most of the time they create large numbers and then just die off.

Lionfish Lair · Dec 29, 2016

I have no idea what mine are eating. I have 2 small fish in a 210 gallon tank and they are fed chucks of food from a stick, so there is zero mess.

Phil Cusimano · Dec 29, 2016

Tyreef2016 said:
I had a huge outbreak in my 90 and i started getting really annoyed. Looked through lots of advice, this is the route i took.

I stopped feeding frozen and reefroids. I switched to pellet so the snails would start to starve.
BROKE as many of those buggers as possible with my turkey baster.

Most of the time they create large numbers and then just die off.
That's another way to go.

hawkinsrgk · Dec 31, 2016

I ordered 20 bumble bee snails at the LFS yesterday. Will let everybody know how it works out. Hopefully it will at least reduce the population.

Shameless_Dood · Dec 31, 2016

Waters said:
If they are not bothering the coral, I would leave them. They tend to come and go in waves as nutrition levels increase/decrease. My tank was covered with them at one point..now I cannot find one.

Same here. There was a few months where they were everywhere but after watching what I fed for a while they went away. IMO they reproduce so fast they eventually get to a point where the population is not sustainable and they will starve out.

Phil Cusimano · Dec 31, 2016

hawkinsrgk said:
I ordered 20 bumble bee snails at the LFS yesterday. Will let everybody know how it works out. Hopefully it will at least reduce the population.

That's another way to go, good luck and keep us posted.

Tori · Dec 31, 2016

Shameless_Dood said:
Same here. There was a few months where they were everywhere but after watching what I fed for a while they went away. IMO they reproduce so fast they eventually get to a point where the population is not sustainable and they will starve out.

Same here except I've been broadcast feeding oyster feast and frozen foods like crazy the last couple of months to get some nutrients in the water. I expected their population to explode but I've only seen a couple. It's puzzling