hello question vermetid

[NJ_ychung1]

i have noticed and finally dawned on the following fact.
i think vermetid / sessile purple snails have been so prosperous in my tank and i didn't think much of it. after some time however, i'm beginning to think it is bother some of my corals. for instance, one rock which had a good colony of clove polyps have receded gradually and i'm noticing there are a bunch of vermetids on that rock. i'm suspicious the verms have done this.

is there a good way to get rid of them. scrape them off... in a bucket... hmm how does anyone else gain control of the verms propagating so fast.

thx in adv.
jay

 

[Phyl]

I wish I had an answer for you (but by the sounds of the problem I'm glad I don't)! I don't have any snails that procreate in my tank with survivors.

 

[Hawkeye]

vermetids are pretty adaptive and from everything I've read - rather innocuous. I'm pretty sure my astereas have vermitids on their shell. It's a little ugly - but they don't seem to harm the invert, or my other corals for that matter. Was thinking more along the lines of water chemistry. Perhaps the same chemistry that has made the vermitids so popular, may also somehow be impacting the cloves? I dunno. It's difficult to correlate these things.

Hermits supposedly eat the worms...though I am not a hermit fan -so use at your own discretion.

Or just scrape them off. One thing you want to make sure if that there aren't so many that they start clogging up the pvc/pumps.

Good luck!