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Vermatid snails?

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Gablami

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I've got a few of these things growing, usually around corals. This is a photo of a bird of paradise, these tubes grew out from around the fragged edges. At first I thought they were just how the coral was healing itself. But now I'm wondering whether they are vermatid snails. I don't see any snail like shell at the base, however. Just wanted to confirm before I start crushing the base of the tubes. I've never seen any mucous or anything coming out of the tubes.

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So I can't just cut the base of the tube, I gotta find some sort of snail under it all? All I see are tubes...


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Gablami said:
So I can't just cut the base of the tube, I gotta find some sort of snail under it all? All I see are tubes...


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Mine usually look like a pile of poo. Roundish mound with a tube sticking out of it. I pop it off right under the mound. If you just pop the tube off, snail can/will just continue to grow.
 
The webbing that they throw out causes lesions and recessions. There's one in the tank that I have to get rid of soon after having clipped and dipped the rock.

This is what the inside of one looks like if you've ever clipped them before.
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This is the loner that I have to deal with next time I do the water change. Didn't clip this guy. Tough guy that survived a 30 minute RO dip (the hitchhiking coral on the right didn't make it). You can zoom in on the vermetid to see the web that he casted.
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I used a tonsil clamp and went after these guys this evening. I basically crushed their poop-like shells beneath the tubes, and it crunched and disintegrated into a cloud of mucous and shell and other crap. I only fully removed a few. Wondering if this was like others experience. It seemed impossible to remove some of them without crushing them into oblivion.


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I used a tonsil clamp and went after these guys this evening. I basically crushed their poop-like shells beneath the tubes, and it crunched and disintegrated into a cloud of mucous and shell and other crap. I only fully removed a few. Wondering if this was like others experience. It seemed impossible to remove some of them without crushing them into oblivion.


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My tool of of choice. Gets under the shell and slides under it as you cut. Pops off easily for me usually.

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http://www.bulkreefsupply.com/brs-5-sps-coral-bone-cutter.html



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Yeah I've got that tool, came with a frag kit I got for secret Santa :). The snails were around my corals though so it was kinda risky. I think crushing them still kills them though.


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