Help with Vermatid snails!!

Help with Vermetid snails!!

These things have been driving me crazy for months. I manually remove them but they're relentless. If anyone knows a way to get rid of them please help. They're growing inside my powerheads now and disables them after a while.

 

av8

I had some in my rockwork that where putting out their stringy threads and annoying my leather coral above them it seemed to me.

I covered the hole with reef putty, pushed it in there on as many as I could get to
that stopped em!

Steve

 

I believe a halichoeres genus wrasse like a radiant or melanurus may eat them if you want to try a natural predator. It may not get them all, like the ones in the powerhead but it may help control the population.

 

also the six line wrasse eats them I do believe

 

yeah some 6 lines will eat them too but I wouldnt count on it, they'd wipeout your pod population first

 

Ok.. thanks for responses.
've read somewhere a copperband may or may not eat them too. I manually crush them when I see them but can't get everywhere. Yesterday one of my Koralias stopped runnning and when I pulled it out for a vinegar soak it was loaded with them.

 

I've been scraping them and/or crushing them but some I can't do that cuz they're embedded in a coral so that's a good idea thanks.

 

superglue in the tube

 

Anyone ever figure out how to kill these punks?

Anyone ever figure out how to kill these punks?