I agree. I think you're waging a losing battle. Feed coral food less, crush more.I don't believe a tank could ever be vermetids free lol. Sooner or later they will get in.
Its everywhere and rocks glued together - there are no way to get it out. Btw - those guys stick to sand, corals, bigger snails...Grab the rock, grab the super glue, and glue the holes
That is a reason why I asked - I read that vermetid can close the tube and prevent bayer of getting inside. Wonder if its true or not.I think that Bayer would kill them. But at the end of a narrow diameter tube, I kinda wonder how much Bayer actually gets to the actual snail.
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Bayer doesn't work. I tested it before with the following.
Both were tested with a zoa rock with 5 vermetids on them and both were unsuccessful. The zoas suffered more than the vermetids at the higher concentration of Bayer.
- Bayer in higher than normal dipping conditions for 30 minutes
- RO water dip for 45 minutes
Manually crushing/breaking the shells of the vermetids is the only thing that has worked for me. Gluing would work as well, but that's quite a bit of glue to use. My cleaner shrimps would eat the vermetids once the tubes/shells are crushed/broken. The vermetid population eventually crashed after awhile.
You could discard them my directionThank you, that's what I though. Will simply discard any piece of coral with vermetids.
I can't imagine how to get to it with needle - it's so tiny and in most cases sits upside down under the rock or coral.I have also had sucess injecting white vinegar into the tubes with a hypodermic needle