Yep, Bumble Bee Snails eat Vermetid snails.

[14 foot reef]

Yep, Bumble Bee Snails eat Vermetid snails.
Cut some Vermetid snails away from my bubble coral, and they came a running to the food source.

 

[blaxsun]

Haha, great to know!

 

[dwest]

Yep, Bumble Bee Snails eat Vermetid snails.
Cut some Vermetid snails away from my bubble coral, and they came a running to the food source.

Have you seen any snails crawl on the rocks and eat them?

 

[14 foot reef]

Have you seen any snails crawl on the rocks and eat them?

Here's 3 on the rock work.

 

[KING KONG]

Yep, Bumble Bee Snails eat Vermetid snails.
Cut some Vermetid snails away from my bubble coral, and they came a running to the food source.

My vermetid snails are living on my favorite rock so I can't mess with it. It had covered that rock with webs. Now, I have directed my flow pump towards it and it's web is gone! Now they are coming out of the rock!

 

[14 foot reef]

More Proof !!!!!
Munching on the Vermetid snails mid reef

 

[BirdFish5000]

They did a fantastic job for me.

 

[kevgib67]

They cleared my tank of them also.

 

[dwest]

More Proof !!!!!
Munching on the Vermetid snails mid reef

Nice. Where did you get yours and how many did you put in your tank?

 

[taulgrl]

They did a fantastic job on my verbatim infestation

 

[14 foot reef]

Nice. Where did you get yours and how many did you put in your tank?

LFS there are 200 of them in the 14' display

 

[zheka757]

are the above pictures taken day time? Cause i have bumblebee snails, but mines only come out at night. I also have vermited snails, still see bunch of weds here and there.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Yep, Bumble Bee Snails eat Vermetid snails.
Cut some Vermetid snails away from my bubble coral, and they came a running to the food source.

I added 6 and it did not take a day for them to be right on recently discovered vermatids

 

[BuckChoklit]

Can confirm. These lil guys were a God send for me. I picked up 3 for a reefer 170 that was infested and within a month i saw a huge change. theyre almost all gone

 

[vtecintegra]

All mine have eaten are my Astraea and Trocus.

 

[BVF]

My 75g tank is infested bad, and I dropped in 18 BB snails over the last couple months. They’re constantly at work. I don’t see nearly as many webs as I did. It’s too bad the tube shells stay put because it’s hard to tell what’s happening to the infestation, and they’re annoying.

 

[TinCanHero]

At the risk of bumping an old tread can you provide an update and some more info and maybe close-up pics on the type on Vsnails you have, please?

My old system had them bad and I tried BB snails but I never saw one eat one or a reduction in their numbers at all.
I tried a TON of other things like starving, urchins, coral snow, etc but nothing seemed to work for me.

Fast forward to today and my new tank (downsize when I moved) has them starting to pop up. I'm manually removing around 3-4 a week until this week when I found 24 yesterday.

I honestly hate these things with a passion and I would love to have some more info regarding your success/progress.

Many thanks!

 

[wmo168]

At the risk of bumping an old tread can you provide an update and some more info and maybe close-up pics on the type on Vsnails you have, please?

My old system had them bad and I tried BB snails but I never saw one eat one or a reduction in their numbers at all.
I tried a TON of other things like starving, urchins, coral snow, etc but nothing seemed to work for me.

Fast forward to today and my new tank (downsize when I moved) has them starting to pop up. I'm manually removing around 3-4 a week until this week when I found 24 yesterday.

I honestly hate these things with a passion and I would love to have some more info regarding your success/progress.

Many thanks!

just keep on picking them off manually. I take out my rock and use a screw driver to pry them off... is fun..

 

[exnisstech]

Wonder how many it would take for an infestation in a 6ft 180g tank I don't know how many vermatids I have because I can't count that high