Can This Dip Kill Vermetid Snails???

Can This Dip Kill Vermetid Snails??? - Red Sea DipX

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Red Sea has recently released their new DipX coral dip product. In this video I put their claims to the test and see how well it performs!

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@amermeer3989 2 жыл бұрын

Great job Marcus! Fantastic and well documented experiment.

@ReefNerd 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot!

@LeeGrill 2 жыл бұрын

The amount of information & time you but into this is invaluable. This is how the hobby progressives.

@ReefNerd 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

@workermeeofficial3665 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for this review test. Vermetid are also my only pest

@KillerKev1961 Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for helping me save a few bucks and pursue manual removal of vermitid snails. Seems to be the ONLY method to rid the tank of these dreaded pests. Cheers......

@ReefNerd Жыл бұрын

Unfortunately seems to be the only way

@rudra7615 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for doing this test and sharing this video. As you pointed out, though it didn't kill vermited snails, it did kill bristle works and is a good dip. Going to pick this up when my current dip finishes

@antonp6917 2 жыл бұрын

Ive used detol to kill most pests. Nothing new here. I find coral rx to bebthe best dip currently on the market btw

@rudra7615 2 жыл бұрын

@@antonp6917 detol? Wow I've tried food grade hydrogen peroxide dips but never detol. I think that may kill vermited, never tried it on vermited snails but a gha frag and did the trick. Did detol kill vermited snails?

@ReefNerd 2 жыл бұрын

i highly doubt any dip will kills vermetid... for the reasons stated in the video, they close their hatch and seal themselves inside their shell, no dip can penetrate it.

@antonp6917 2 жыл бұрын

@@rudra7615 the detol is diluted as any other dip. Works a treat. Does not work on vermatids unfortunately.

@thomasprussack2860 Жыл бұрын

They are great survivors well protected by there shell if some one can come up with something they will get rich

@lisajulia Жыл бұрын

No joke! I'm telling you if somebody came up with a cure for these that actually works 100% of the time they would be multi-billionaires. I think these wretched snails of the worst part of reefing, hands down.

@jjmccloud 2 жыл бұрын

Still seems like a good dip for other hitchhikers, the bristleworms alone make it nice. Guess it would come down to price vs others that do the same. Myself I just loke red sea so I'd use it over others anyway lol unless price was crazy higher. I havnt looked into it yet though

@ReefNerd 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely, I am impressed that the bristle worms were dead after the 15min dip. Every other dip iv tried has certainly stressed or annoyed them, but never flat out killed them in that timeframe.

@MrDUSTYBOY272 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this Marcus really thorough and helpful experiment. Do you know if Bumblebee snails eat them or is this a myth? Cool Vietnam painting BTW.

@ReefNerd 2 жыл бұрын

I dont know first hand, as bumblebee snails are not avaliable in Australia. However I have heard they do eat them.

@ozzy1887 2 жыл бұрын

I got 75 of them & they're doing a good job so far.

@insanity4224 5 ай бұрын

Damn. Great experiment though.

@Reefahholic 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent video ReefNerd. At this point in time and probably years to come…Vermetid snails cannot be defeated. Check out my recent video on the other undefeated pest (Bubble Algae). At least for those of use that don’t like dumping algaecides in our systems. 😉

@kuraimaho 2 жыл бұрын

I wonder how effective it would be to drop a little reef food in the dip to coax them out and let the dipx in (or feed, then pour in the dipx while their nets are out out if necessary).

@ReefNerd 2 жыл бұрын

I very much doubt that would work... they are too smart for that haha

@pn7836 2 жыл бұрын

Good video! Any way to get rid of vermetid snails once they’re in your tank or is just management by breaking them off?

@ReefNerd 2 жыл бұрын

Not that I know of, only effective way is using pliers or something similar to physically smash or remove them from the rock

@J0hnnyp 2 жыл бұрын

Glue their tubes!

@gino.from.chicago 2 жыл бұрын

Hey hopefully you respond - so I’m upgrading 65 - 150 gallons. Plan on transferring everything. But I want to create a little nfs type scape in addition to my current live rock I’ll be transferring, but I don’t want to add a lot of dry rock cause I have all live rock that I’m transferring. I know I’ll get some spikes in nutrients just cause it’s still a new setup even though I’m transferring everything, but I heard Mike Paletta say he noticed long term (2-5+ yrs) corals don’t do as well with dry rock for whatever reason. My question is, did you experience any negative side effects with adding partially some dry rock to your established reef? How soon did you add it after building your scape? That glue is reef safe? Kept wondering cause you mentioned it’s not regular cyanoacrylate. Thanks a lot! Awesome videos

@ReefNerd 2 жыл бұрын

Honestly I didnt notice any negatives at all. My new rock was added a couple weeks after the mature rock had already been added. It matured and got covered in coralline very quickly. Any form of super glue/cyanoacrylate is reef safe, the one I used is only special because of how thin its consistency is.

@alexflorin24 Жыл бұрын

Hi, how we call those thousands in number, white dots on the back of corals? I thought they are vermitide snails

@J0hnnyp 2 жыл бұрын

I tried to glue their tubes to kill vermetid snails. I heard emerald crabs also work?!

@reefp5816 2 жыл бұрын

maybe crush those shells before the dip ? might work that way

@ReefNerd 2 жыл бұрын

going to that much effort kinda defeats the purpose.. may as well just use clippers and remove them entirely.

@madshepsreef282 2 жыл бұрын

I just use a laser and burn them nothing else works and I’ve tried everything. I just can’t get between the rocks but it’s one of those things all about having a reef tank

@ReefNerd 2 жыл бұрын

great idea!

@gauravyadav8937 6 ай бұрын

Reef primer did it in 5 minutes

@marcelrodriguez2067 2 жыл бұрын

My rocks are full of them 😂😂

@antonp6917 2 жыл бұрын

Same, they are everywhere...

@petarst 8 ай бұрын

Why they lied to us?

@martybean71 2 жыл бұрын

does anything eat the snails

@ReefNerd 2 жыл бұрын

I have heard bumblebee snails do. But they are not available in Aus so I cannot verify or test this myself

@J0hnnyp 2 жыл бұрын

I heard emerald crabs CAN eat these

@HCBCHEMISTRY 2 жыл бұрын

That shit isn't going to kill the snails. I have a friend with them and fuck that. Those shits pop up everywhere. They are real survivors. Somehow, something in the ocean gotta eat these left and right... We just haven't found them.

@richardportelli1983 2 жыл бұрын

Vermetids are just one of those things that is almost impossible to keep out of most reef tank unless you are very anal about cleaning and QT all of your corals for months before adding to a display which most reefers are never going to do cos its just too much work.

@ReefNerd 2 жыл бұрын

I agree, they are generally not a pest that will ruin a reef anyway, any that get particularly large or annoy a specific coral can be easily removed manually, but total eradication is not usually necessary.

@jmboulware 9 ай бұрын

Why not increase the dose and/or time? Toxicity in many creatures is cumulative over time, limiting to a single experiment of only 15 minutes seems incomplete.

@taylor4tails 2 жыл бұрын

Damn. thanks for the experiment. Us Aussies need to find something that will kill these suckers :(

@ReefNerd 2 жыл бұрын

Totally!

@J0hnnyp 2 жыл бұрын

If it’s manageable glue their tubes!

@andrewsdrmike 2 жыл бұрын

Bumblebee snails are effective but take some time

@ReefNerd 2 жыл бұрын

I have heard this before, however unfortunately I believe they are not available in Australia, good for reefers in the countries you can get them though!