All About The Vermetid Snails

[@opethmike]

Bumblebee snails did an amazing job for me. It took a few months, but I haven't seen a single sign of vermetids in over a year.

[@PhiCongDoan7587]

How many would you recommend on a 100g tank?

[@opethmike]

@@PhiCongDoan7587 I had four in my 20 gallon tall which was completely covered in vermetids. Took about two months before I noticed a difference, and around month four they were gone. So I suppose maybe a dozen to twenty, depending on how bad your vermetid problem is?

[@PhiCongDoan7587]

@opethmike I did manually cut them off the rocks about 2 months ago. There are a couple here and there. I do have some Bumblebee Snails however there is maybe like 2-3 actually alive. I started with 10 but someone them just died. I would try to pay attention to where the Vermetids snails are but they're still there wondering if I should invest in another 10 Bumblebee Snails.

[@opethmike]

@@PhiCongDoan7587 May as well try

[@BrockLeonard]

Heck yes!

[@cherellzandell]

Appreciate you, & all the info you pass along, you're one of my favorite resources 🙂

[@BrockLeonard]

I appreciate that!

[@numberkidtheprimenumberfan1979]

New all About fish Coming soon: Scribbled Angelfish, Gold flake Angel, Chrysurus angel, etc.

[@janir1838]

Vermitide snails will rebroduce fast on new dead life rock. I have noticed that vermide snails wont stick on coraline algae.

[@mandyvan]

Thank you, Brock! I’ll have to watch if our Blue Throat Fairy Wrasse picks at them. In my first year of having a few reef tanks (65G, 73G, 300G), I have noticed that the vermetids like to make their shells on Candy Cane corals. Quite a few have popped up recently on rocks and such. With the recent addition of bumblebee snails, I haven’t seen many of their webs. 😋

[@thesilentone4024]

Can you talk about expert level clams to keep. Or mybe talk about how maxima clams breed and if they need host fish.

[@billgorsey8010]

My encrusting montipora grows over them, and makes some neat growth patterns lol

[@BrockLeonard]

Hahahaha that’s great

[@garyjenson1326]

Reef builders found a whelk snail that eats these. They can go after certain snails but I think they work much better than bumblebees, which didn't really work for me maybe. I've also used a 10+w Lazer to cook them. Aim at the base and wait for the pop, very satisfying.

[@BrockLeonard]

That is incredible! Thanks for sharing

[@stevejames808]

I was about to move my newer frogspawn frag to my display tank and seen “white hairs” all over it. There’s some bigger tubes coming off the skeleton. But it seems there’s a lot of double hairs on the surface, just no visible tubes yet. I feel like coating the skeleton with super glue wouldn’t be the best idea. I might just pretend I didn’t see em and get a couple bumblebee snails. I’m also fighting dinos now too and using Tropic Marin Plus-NP to bring back up the phos/nitrate while also essentially carbon dosing and feeding the phosphate with the specific bacteria for it to eat. Should I hold off on moving the frag to the dino tank or would adding the possible vermetid snails not even add to the main issue of the getting my nutrients stable again ?

[@user-du5wq7xx4y]

I just want to say this is my favorite go to channel for fish I know little to nothing about I was hoping maybe I'd hear something new on how to get rid of vermetid snails when I seen this new video sadly not the case still love this channel

[@BrockLeonard]

So glad you could stop by!

[@PhiCongDoan7587]

Have a great week as well Brock! Question: is there a specific species wrasse that I should get to control the Vermited snails or any Wrasse is ok? Currently have a small White Belly Wrasse and Melanarus Wrasse.

[@BrockLeonard]

White bellies are the best known ones to eat them. It’s really any wrasse cause it’s hit or miss

[@joelbirrueta408]

Thanks for the video I’ve managed them with a yellow corona wrass and like 30 bumble bee snails I rarely see them now

[@BrockLeonard]

That’s what I’m talking about!

[@eliasgordon757]

Can you do a vidro about Digitate Hydroids? if you know anything about them that is.

[@chrispearl1473]

I just noticed tonight I had a weird web in my tank of nearly 1 year old. Small tank, no new critters since I started outside of Astrea snails literally only Astrea snails. What about breaking them up while doing a water change with a siphon over top of it? Might take two people but if you can suck up all the particles after you break it, you’re money!

[@BrockLeonard]

Sounds like a winner to me!!

[@sueaustin9093]

Very Interesting!! Didn’t know All That 😮

[@BrockLeonard]

Thanks for watching!

[@michaelphillips3658]

Good video!

[@shadyacres87]

These things are my absolute nightmare - the one thing putting me off doing a reef tank

[@BrockLeonard]

They can be such a pain.

[@darthlatitude2105]

Can you please do a top 5 fish for a 125-gallon tank? I'm going to be setting up my second-ever saltwater tank in a month or two and it'll be that size

[@BrockLeonard]

YES!

[@Nippa1988]

Gold banded Possum Wrasse destroyed my vermetid problem

[@robertfpv7733]

Intro music 10/10 💯💯💯💯

[@tonycloseukreef3799]

Cheers Brock 👍

[@BrockLeonard]

Thanks for always coming by Tony!

[@EDKsurly]

I beat the snails. You just have to get bumblebee snails and actively remove them daily.

[@bobbiesueleonard61]

Great video.

[@BrockLeonard]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@annebartells777]

I had hundreds in my reef. I bought three of those snails. Several months later, I asked my husband, do you see any of those snails in here. We couldn't find any

[@BrockLeonard]

That’s some hungry snails right there 😂

[@johngrenney466]

Thank you .

[@BrockLeonard]

Welcome 😊

[@Canadaisthegreat]

how to prevent this guy go into my tank?

[@BrockLeonard]

Honestly isn’t a sure fire way to prevent it unless you add all dry rock to your set up. But even one could catch on a snail shell.

[@numberkidtheprimenumberfan1979]

Vermetid Snails: Devil 666 Snails

[@danceswithpaperhands6221]

I had one on a frog spawn from 8 years ago. I should have done proper quarantine. Fast forward no matter what I do I can't eradicate them.

[@annebartells777]

@@danceswithpaperhands6221 I had hundreds of these. I got three bumblebee snails. Six months later, I have yet to see a vermetid snail in my tank

[@EggsIce]

Do you have an Instagram I can give a follow?

[@BrockLeonard]

Yes! Links are in the description. Brocklee95

[@mickrobinson8150]

Bollocks no way can you manually remove all of them

[@BrockLeonard]

No way! Best to get some snails or wrasse to handle the remaining

[@mickrobinson8150]

I have bumblebee snails and I’ve never seen one anywhere near them

[@BrockLeonard]

They must be finding other stuff to eat😅