Vermetid Snails in your Reef tank? Lets get rid of them together!

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In this video, I go through all of what I've tried in getting rid of vermetid snails. Some work and some don't. Give them a try and let me know how they turn out for you.
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[@jeremyjustice5595]

I had a tonne of them. Got a few bumblebee snails but doubt that solved it until my Twistii Wrasse arrived and I don’t even remember when I stopped worrying about them or even seeing them, but they certainly never pose a problem now. The Twistii is one of those wrasse you can sometimes actually hear the clicking little pop of it sucking something out of the rockwork with force!

[@fletcherwright7042]

If you have big vermitad snails brack all the big stims and use bumble bee snails along with the yellow wrasse will follow you around while you are braking the stims and eat them and get them off rock and sand bed. It really worked for me

[@ModernReefer]

I'll have to give this a try.

[@fletcherwright7042]

@@ModernReefer yellow wrasse will eat them all day at least the one I had did. It took about 3 months and I didn't see any

[@THERM0KING]

Gladly I can remove my structures as I kept them as big as possible while still being able to take them out. I just cracked off many with pliers while moving my tank. I heard about starving them out, so maybe additional coral snow will take them out over a period of time.

[@ThaNewGenesis]

BRS has these large curved shaped coral cutters that tend to be very helpful in crushing the base of these snails. Vermetids tend to go for foods that are being broadcasted and are meaty. Try feeding less and if you can switch to pellets for a while with the powerheads off. Avoid feeding over the rockscape. I am currently dealing with them and this has been helping in reducing their spread. Also after every feeding before I turn on the powerheads I hit it with 4ml of coral snow to try and trap someof that left over food and remove it from the tank.

[@ModernReefer]

I've been feeding less and and with coral snow. I'll give my input in the next video.

[@incognitoreef]

Hi, just added a blue spotted puffer to my tank and I can confirm he definitely picks the vermitted snails of the rock! Will have to wait and see if he will continues once he had a taste of the main frozen food.

[@ModernReefer]

Is he going after the larger vermetid snails or just the small ones? Also, what size blue speed puffer did you get?

[@incognitoreef]

@@ModernReefer only noticed him going after the small ones but must say i only have a few large ones. I take them out with plier if i see them. He is about the size of a regular clown fish.

[@ModernReefer]

@@incognitoreef Thanks for sharing

[@Acidrain50001]

Wetmorella wrasse, six line and others that could help Halichoeres wrasses, Yellow Coris Wrasses & Copperband butterflyfish I've used Bumblebee snails and they work.

[@ModernReefer]

I have a six line and melanurus wrasse but they don't seem interested. I've heard of the yellow Coris wrasse but I have yet to try it. I'll have to read more on the wetmorella wrasse and copper band. The bubblebee snails seems to only go after the small toothpick vermetid snails in my tank.

[@marcosherrera675]

Honestly mine just went away after a couple years. One thing I did was stop broadcast feeding. I use only frozen brine and I use a pipette to feed the fish only what they can consume in a few seconds. Then I add more until the fish stop coming to the surface for more food. The shells of the vermented snails are still there but they don't cast that web anymore. I destroy the empty shells I can get to and they don't grow back anymore.

[@ModernReefer]

Thanks for sharing. I'm now only feeding what the fish can consume with frozen brine shrimp and a quarter sheet of nori. Let's see what happens.

[@jaredtandle2596]

Im about ready to sanitize the tank and start with new rock and sand. These damn things are so ugly and closing up my corals.

[@ModernReefer]

I totally agree. They are nasty. Let me know how it goes if you do decide to sanitize the tank and start over.

[@tjgentryart]

Bumble bee snails, break the shells for them to get to em easier., also you can feed a particulate food to get their webs out, then dose coral snow (calcium carbonate) and it will mess up their food webs

[@ModernReefer]

I just ordered some coral snow so we'll see how it goes.

[@bluerider0988]

It's even tough to keep them out with qt. I qtd all Corals for 8 weeks and never saw a vermitted. Now about 3 years later they finally showed up with the last item added to the tank being 6 months ago. This leads me to believe that they can be dormant for an extended period of time. My tank is only 55 gallons and i started out just using super glue, but the population was exploding so that didn't make sense anymore as my rocks started to look ridiculous. Now I am just crushing them multiple times a week. Whenever i see one i just crush it. I've just accepted that this will be part of regular maintenance now. I do know that Mike Paletta has said he's having success with coral snow. He says he feeds the tank to get the vermitted seems webs out and then he doses the coral snow. Supposedly it gets caught in their webs and eventually causes them to die.

[@ModernReefer]

I've been at it for a long time without any success. I'm going to try the coral snow to see if that does anything. Thank you for sharing your experience with these pet. I wish someone had some concrete guaranteed method to getting rid of these pest. I've hear the harlequin tusk wrasse will work on these pest but they are expensive.

[@saml8119]

Mine are so bad. I thought my sps could outpace then but I lost that battle

[@richardpersue1446]

There’s some talk about coral snow blocking up the tubes, thus starving them.

[@ModernReefer]

I tried one bottle of Coral Snow but didn't see any results. Some suggest trying a few bottles but those bottles are pretty expensive. I'll have to try it again at a later date.

[@adamsilversmith]

I read an article and lost it. But it said to only feed the tank flake and pellet food for a while. This way you stop feeding them. I can confirm my population is slowing since I started doing. I also never see the nets anymore being cast. But my tank is covered in them. It may take a long time before they all starve out. The article called for flake food and then dosing a supplement when they cast their nets during water changes to kill them but can’t remember what it was. But try just feeding flake food for a while. You’ll see a difference

[@ModernReefer]

Thanks for sharing.

[@jonathanreich9694]

Yep, I read that also. They will not eat flakes or pellets. They then starve. Also try a uv sterilizer. If they have a free swimming larvae stage the uv will sterilize them and they will not be able to reproduce.

[@garyjenson1326]

Yeah it's started with a 5 watt Lazer but soon I bumped up 10 watt (actually 12). That thing boils them in their shells, and vaporizes aptasia, so no babies. This only helps with control. Eradication is not possible in any practal way. Imo

[@justasfrosty1831]

ive see them manage to get themselves in fish only systems . onlything that works is light frozen food feeding with varmint snails(remove all snails in tank)

[@patricksleu]

Have you tried calcium-magnesium carbonate aka Coral Snow?

[@ModernReefer]

I have read about it on r2r but have not tried it. Maybe I"ll look more into it now.

[@sacreef]

+1 on this. I’ve read about this! Try it and give us a follow up!

[@ModernReefer]

I've ordered some. Once it comes in, I'll give it a try and report back.

[@BogdanPolozhevets123]

This, or just purchase food-grade calcium carbonate at a fraction of the cost. Mix with RO/DI and use just like coral snow

[@NerdistAquarist]

I nuked my tank because of Vermetids. It wasn't until then I discovered the silicone seals were forming air gaps. So I drained and broke down the tank. Didn't want to chance 100 plus gallons flooding my living room.

[@ModernReefer]

Good move on your part there. Hopefully you have another tank setup now.

[@aidilrahim7612]

Damn man laser....! U are the man in black bro😂😢

[@y_gagaring]

Where did you get that laser? Got some small aiptasia that i want to melt. I'm currently using Bumble Bee snails and super glue for my vermetids.

[@ModernReefer]

I bought it from amazon years ago but they mostly have the lower wattage lasers now.

[@patterdalezipsuzilil]

Yours. Are massive you took your eye off the ball

[@ModernReefer]

Unfortunately I did and this is the result of that.

[@michaeleaddy7568]

Did you try kz coral snow?

[@ModernReefer]

I have not tried that. I will have to give it a try to see if it works.

[@moereefer]

I would take out rock by rock and scrub. I used to super clue. But only had two you have a plague lol certain wrasse will eat them

[@ModernReefer]

A lot of the rocks are glue together to form one large piece so it'll be hard to take them out plus there are so many on them that it'll be impossible to get them all. Let me know what wrasse will eat them. I'm open to giving it a try.

[@moereefer]

@@ModernReefer that sucks I ran my own store and I would get peppermint shrimp and they would eat them I’ve also would super glue them to. Them but honestly I I never seen that bad. I suggest slowly removing parts of the reef and maybe start new scape. That’s what I would suggest to my clients

[@ModernReefer]

@@moereefer yeah. thanks for the advice. I thought about just starting all over again but I'm still debating.