I love the passion she is describing the Vermitidae with :) Very thorough and professional approach. Thank you

Nice demo, I enjoyed that. And how you called them “nasty vermetids” 😄👍🏻

It's amazing how pest adapt so well and survive yet the coral struggle. Good video.. Usually pyramid snails kill clams more than those do.

Thank you Gallery Aquatica TV, this video quite possibly saved my tank from a vermetid snail infestation. As of lately Ive noticed a break out of vermetid. After watching this video i did some digging in the tank and found a huge mother vermetid snail that im quite sure has been the culprit. It measured almost three inches long and had three interior channels, almost half inch thick. This is the only video on KZfaq that mentions to look for a mother vermetid. Many other reefers recommend throwing out all the live rock and starting over. Thank you for posting these informative videos, you guys are doing a huge service to the reefing community.

Because of your video now I realize that I have Vermetid snail in my tank. No wonder why my birdnest is dying. Thanks for the video! Now you got one more subscriber.

Most informative pest video EVER, hands down. Thank you

Great seeing you on camera Ania, you should do it more often! Good information, well presented 👌 I'll have to come up and finally check out the store soon.

Great video, thanks! I have had success getting rid of these pests by using a syringe and filling there tubes with kalkwasser paste or Aiptasia X.

Finally the reason I was looking for thankyou so much

This was an excellent, informative video! It inspired me to tackle what was a small one months ago, that turned into a monster while I dithered about removing it (turned into a breeder, as you so aptly called it, while I wasn’t looking 😱). Thank you for the kick up the a** to get onto it! 👍🏻👍🏻

that was a awesome video I was just looking trying to find info on these Vermetid Snails I had no idea what was growing in my aquarium I thought the coral was somehow putting out this web looking net lol. So after looking really close at my birdsnest and duncan I noticed the tube with the snail in it. So just like you said I pulled the corals and snipped off the nasty vermetids, it was easy to do. Thanks for the great info.

Ania, my 10 year old daughter is a big fan. She said you give her "good vibes". We love the videos, thanks so much.

This was so good Ania!!! OMG I have Vermetid snails!!!! Now I know why I lost my clams! Thank you again, great channel!!!!!!

Excellent instructions and knowledge

Great information on these pests thank for sharing

Awesome video. Very informative...

Excellent video!!

Holy molly that’s one huge V. snail colony!! 😅nasty I hate them too. Great video Ania ✌️

LOL! I love the cuteness at 11:31 "Probably"! That was so funny and cute at the same time. I have this nasty pest in my tank that has begun to attach to the base of my SPS Acros and is out of control.... *sad face*

I completely agree with Rookie Reefer, you're my favorite person, Ania.

Great bid, I have seen a small population grow in my tank in the last few months. I have 2 peacock wrasse, a sixline and a flasher wrasse and they don't seem to be doing anything. My lfs recommend to try a copperband and I am putting one in the system this weekend but I am also removing manually. Don't have a coral cutters but am definitely going to get one. I am breaking the tube of the snail with my fingers and scraping at the base with a butter knife😂😂 doing a job for the minute but need that cutters

Love it , thanks for sharing

Thanks again guys👍

Really interesting video!

Thank you for the very informational video. I did not know I had a pest in my tank until after I saw this video. I was wondering why I was getting a spider web like mucus film on one of my rocks. Learned it was a vermetid snail from this video and quickly took it out with a coral clippers. It was introduced through a recent coral purchase, needless to say I will not be purchasing from the same online vendor again.

I dumped 100 pounds of vermatid infested rock into a cistern of fresh water where it sat for almost a year in stagnation and decay. The vermatid population was still thriving. One week in a 10:1 bleach solution and there were still some well encapsulated unoxidized snail carcasses. I picked away hundreds of little spiral shells.

11:30 she bout killed me 🤣🤣🤣

You guys are awesome

How informative

Great video! I own a laser like you describe and have a heck of a vermetid snail infestation. I will try it out! Luckily mine are not the really bad kind, they are smaller and more of an eyesore than a coral killer. I still want them gone :)

Great video ania

Normal snails, such as turbosnails, are another potential source. People normally are careful when introducing corals etc, not so careful on inverts.

Great vid.

Great info👍

As a fellow female reefer, I think I have a crush!

Needle nose pliers and stave them! I have a gigas, blue squamosa clam that was covered wit them. Got them under control by feeding less and manually crushing them. I'm happy as a clam now lol😊

Nice information to have. I have heard anidotaly that Bumble Bee snails might be an effective predator of the Vermetid snails. Any evidence to that effect?

Bumblebee snails work, but slowly.

Definitely an interesting view on vermetid snails, considering both Julian Sprung and the late Robert (Bob) Fenner consider them to be a harmless addition to any reef. "These long strands entrap detritus and plankton on which the snail feeds. are harmless, and their proliferation indicates the aquarium is healthy". - 'The Reef Aquarium by Julian Sprung and J.Charles Delbeek' . "sessile Vermetid snails may be inevitable, they are helpful filter-feeders, but harsh on one’s hands for their sharp, sturdy calcareous spiral tubes. Frankly, a few tens or even a couple hundred of them in a larger aquarium are a very fine addition to the biodiversity. Vermetids are completely reef-safe and pose no threat to desirable marine invertebrate life”. - Reef Invertebrates an Essential Guide to Selection, Care and Compatibility’ by Robert Fenner and Anthony Calfo.

Educational... you sound like a marine biologist :-)

Great info. Is there a certain quarantine time to make sure they’re not introduce into main display?

Have heard recently that bumblebee snails eat the vermeted snails on a Tidal Gardens video. May want to check out that option.

I had a few small ones that usually ended up I my fingers. My last fairy wrasse died and it seemed over night I had hundreds if not thousands. I put fishing line in the bigger ones tubes. I was thinking about a metal or stone polisher with the different shaped and grit stones to clean them off the live rock.

what are your thoughts on using bumblebee snails?

removal is labor intensive, but its gotta be done! Thank you.....

Epic video! Little buggers. I think I have them on my clams shell. I’ll have to bring you a video and show you so you can tell me. In the mean time I’ll start working in my secret lab to organise a frikkin shark with frikkin lasers attached to their frikkin heads...

Question,can you use red bug treatment to wipe out vermited snails using dog heartworm Interceptor?

Nemo needs lasar attachments.....🤗🔥😊🌞🙏🤙

Is there a active predator that manages these on real reefs, I can’t find one! I wonder what keeps them from taking over a reef in the wild.

Hate this pests always a stressful time when I spot one in my reef

O mention of the bumblebee snail.

Jake Adams used to use a screwdriver lol

I think you should get in front of the camera more often Ania 👌

That vermatid was huge. Ooo a bristle worm. Lol.....

So, I have little vermetids in my tank. Probably like 10 or so at a time. Once a week I sit there and go on a murdering spree. I recently stepped my game up and instead of just breaking them off the rock, I got a pair of hemostats and I actually grab them and a chunk off the rock and remove them from the tank. Of course, this only works for the ones I can see... I do have some corals that inexplicably are not really doing great... oooof. I might order a small army of bumble-bee snails and remove each rock one by one picking every vermetid from them and rescape my whole tank. UGGGGHHH.

Vermentid snails called the cops 10:46😂🤣

What about Bumblebee snails, I hear they eat them?

I saw a bunch of these things in the frag tank of my closest aquarium store down here in Melbourne. Turned me off buying anything there, they were lurking on almost every rock and frag plug🤢

Some live footage would of been helpful. Unfortunately, did not really help me at all but thanks for trying.

Should you not start with “Hi I’m Ania the fish girl”

Sro

the mucus does absolutely no dmg to coral tissue , i have like 50 of these snails in my reef tank and they do no harm at all , if any they clean the water and that's a good thing .