Pyramid Snails on Astrea

barjam · 06/28/2007, 08:02 AM

Are there any other ways to get rid of these guys besides wrasses and manual extraction?

Thanks

Travis L. Stevens · 06/28/2007, 08:13 AM

Copper..... Of course, that won't necessarily help you with anything else in your tank

Frick-n-Frags · 06/28/2007, 08:17 AM

i got through a plague by manual extraction. scoped every snail on the glass for a while. haven't seen any in a really long time, so I think I won [for now]

argggh! I hate those little bleeps

next time i get clams, they are going to go in a little hammock suspended from above too. and that is primarily why I have stayed away from clams ever since they killed my two once upon a time.

barjam · 06/28/2007, 08:27 AM

Ok, I just dumped in a dose of cupramine, now what? Now this won't mess with the SPS will it?

dc · 06/28/2007, 08:32 AM

Hopefully you read the instructions and it told you what to do. I personally just manually remove them.

barjam · 06/28/2007, 09:01 AM

dc, I was totally kidding (as was Travis). Copper would kill everything in the tank.

It must have taken forever for these guys to reach plague proportions. I remember seeing a couple in the sand back in December (not knowing what it was) and they are just now in numbers that I am noticing them on the astreas.

Travis L. Stevens · 06/28/2007, 09:23 AM

Are you 100% sure they are Pyramidella? First read through this: http://www.reefland.com/rho/2006/05/...lid_snails.php Then, go to Radio Shack and ask them where their "Pocket Microscope" is. For $9.99, you can get an awesome little microscope with 60-100x zoom. Works great at looking at little pods and snails. Just take a suspected snail out, put it on a white piece of paper, and view it under the microscope. You should be able to ID it from there. You might be lucky and only have Rissoids. That's what I have.

barjam · 06/28/2007, 12:32 PM

When I first looked into these snails I thought Rissoids so didn't worry about them... now they are covering the bottom of the asteras. If I clean them off in a day or so new/different ones will take their place.

If they were rissoids and were looking to eat the algae off the snails they would cover the snail not just stay at the bottom (I would assume). Also they wouldn't line up around the soft edge (again, an assumption).

I tried to use a magnifying class to make an ID but it wasn't strong enough. I will see if my kids have a scope or I will just buy one.

Thanks

06/28/2007, 08:02 AM	#1
barjam Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 1,695	Pyramid Snails on Astrea Are there any other ways to get rid of these guys besides wrasses and manual extraction? Thanks

06/28/2007, 08:13 AM	#2
Travis L. Stevens Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Perry, OK Posts: 13,946	Copper..... Of course, that won't necessarily help you with anything else in your tank __________________ Travis Stevens Current Tank Info: Restarting 28g Bowfront

06/28/2007, 08:17 AM	#3
Frick-n-Frags Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: north central OH Posts: 10,740	i got through a plague by manual extraction. scoped every snail on the glass for a while. haven't seen any in a really long time, so I think I won [for now] argggh! I hate those little bleeps next time i get clams, they are going to go in a little hammock suspended from above too. and that is primarily why I have stayed away from clams ever since they killed my two once upon a time. __________________ Only Dead fish swim with the current. Current Tank Info: 2 50 gal tanks, sump, still BB

06/28/2007, 08:32 AM	#5
dc Moderator Emeritus Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Wyoming Posts: 44,684	Hopefully you read the instructions and it told you what to do. I personally just manually remove them. __________________ Debi ~60 Cube~ Why? Because I said so of course. -Sent via Tapatalk Smoke Signals-

06/28/2007, 09:23 AM	#7
Travis L. Stevens Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Perry, OK Posts: 13,946	Are you 100% sure they are Pyramidella? First read through this: http://www.reefland.com/rho/2006/05/...lid_snails.php Then, go to Radio Shack and ask them where their "Pocket Microscope" is. For $9.99, you can get an awesome little microscope with 60-100x zoom. Works great at looking at little pods and snails. Just take a suspected snail out, put it on a white piece of paper, and view it under the microscope. You should be able to ID it from there. You might be lucky and only have Rissoids. That's what I have. __________________ Travis Stevens Current Tank Info: Restarting 28g Bowfront

06/28/2007, 08:27 AM	#4
barjam Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 1,695	Ok, I just dumped in a dose of cupramine, now what? Now this won't mess with the SPS will it?

06/28/2007, 09:01 AM	#6
barjam Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 1,695	dc, I was totally kidding (as was Travis). Copper would kill everything in the tank. It must have taken forever for these guys to reach plague proportions. I remember seeing a couple in the sand back in December (not knowing what it was) and they are just now in numbers that I am noticing them on the astreas.

06/28/2007, 12:32 PM	#8
barjam Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 1,695	When I first looked into these snails I thought Rissoids so didn't worry about them... now they are covering the bottom of the asteras. If I clean them off in a day or so new/different ones will take their place. If they were rissoids and were looking to eat the algae off the snails they would cover the snail not just stay at the bottom (I would assume). Also they wouldn't line up around the soft edge (again, an assumption). I tried to use a magnifying class to make an ID but it wasn't strong enough. I will see if my kids have a scope or I will just buy one. Thanks