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04/08/2019, 12:46 PM | #1 |
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Spider web on my corals...
Somebody can help me?
It's only over my SPS and LPS. It's killing my corals... |
04/08/2019, 10:02 PM | #2 |
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You have vermited snails?
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04/09/2019, 12:08 AM | #3 |
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I'm following but you best breakdown and dip them all with Malifix
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04/09/2019, 04:30 AM | #4 |
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04/09/2019, 10:58 AM | #5 |
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Following never seen something like this let us know what method you use to cure it or what caused it
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04/10/2019, 06:34 PM | #6 |
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04/10/2019, 07:16 PM | #7 |
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If you have a small pump zip tie it to a cleaner or scrapper and blow it off the coral.
Take pliers and break the tubes off at the base and pull them out with the snail inside them. I had hundreds and most are gone now. To me it seems like they thrive in dirty water but not sure if thats true. |
04/10/2019, 10:55 PM | #8 |
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I have seen the tank and there is not a vermetid snails, is a 160 gallons tank. It is only covering the corals, the rock is clean. It is really strange.
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04/10/2019, 11:11 PM | #9 |
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My 180 gallon tank only had it on the corals. Was vermited snails.
If you say its not then I have no clue what else release the spider webs beside them. |
04/10/2019, 11:37 PM | #10 |
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http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=980462
An old thread that I find relevant to your concern. |
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05/19/2019, 03:06 AM | #13 |
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I had vermetid snails, the really really large ones, in my tank and their slime-nets looked nothing like what is shown in those pictures. The whole way those nets over those corals look like - precisely like those unruly spider webs you see covering bushes in the fall - doesn't fit vermetid snails.
You might want to check Google scholar if there are articles about something that fits these nets. I found that there are lots of studies done on coral pests and diseases. The only tricky thing with Google scholar is to pick the right key words to find what you are looking for. Sent from my XT1254 using Tapatalk
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Seems like it could be a vermitid snail after all:
Structural deformation of branching corals associated with the vermetid gastropod Dendropoma maxima The pictures in this research article look similar to the ones above. It seems there is a somewhat natural way to protect the corals: Guard crabs alleviate deleterious effects of vermetid snails on a branching coral And it seems there is another snail that preys on them: Death and life: Muricid snails consume the vermetid gastropod, Dendropoma maximum, and use empty shells for reproduction
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06/08/2019, 10:28 PM | #15 |
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http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/sh....php?t=2647854
I’m lucky. I have a few big ones. I use a Salifert tritiation 1ml syringe to inject H2O2 12% in to their opening... they die.
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Good luck with this i have never seen it and never want too
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