What worked for me was the combination of: 1)Stop broadcast feeding, feed only minimum pellets that the fish will consume. 2) DIY Corol Snow every day 3) Bumble Bee Snails. After a few weeks I didn't seem to have any more. If its not bad for the tank maybe do Coral Snow twice a day. The idea is to waste all the vermitid's calories consuming Coral Snow so they have no energy to reproduce while they starve or get eaten by the BB snails.

First, just used food grade calcium carbonate in R/O its a lot cheaper, dose once a week the average time is 6-8 weeks. Ive killed vermatids in many tanks like this. It takes a while. 1 week is no where near long enough. The longest ever i needed to dose was 12 weeks.

@ModernReefer

4 ай бұрын

Interesting and thanks for sharing.

It's only a week... I was doing it and I def think it helped with them. But other benefits too (although I did a DIY with a little bacteria and carbon)... I think it's probably great nutrition for the corals but also water clarity... anyhow I run ozone so that's not really an issue

@ModernReefer

5 ай бұрын

Coral Snow is pretty expensive. I'm curious, how long did you dose before seeing results?

@sunnygoold9449

5 ай бұрын

@@ModernReefer regarding Vermitids I think I used it for 3 months and they were mostly gone. But my population had already dropped and I just bought the Calcium Carbonate (I think that is what it is) from a chemical manufacuturer (along with some other chemicals). IMO there's no real difference if you are trying to get rid of the Vermitids and I am not sure if KZ add anything else. I've become a very lazy reefer lately but if I wasn't DIYing the carbonate, adding some bacteria and food (I added Aminos and I think TM Bactobalance) is the way to go with a caveat... I've used some bacteria and some aminos in the past where I suspect they caused negative impacts on my corals. Having them bound up in the snow I think means they either get captured by the corals OR removed by the skimmer / become inert. This is why TMs Coral Snow thing is different and what I think they are trying to achieve - feeding the corals - as it didn't clarify the water when I was using. I still have it but MUCH prefer the DIY method as per Reefsite dot com's method. Also, Vermitids were not on my list as to reasons why I did it but I would definitely recommend doing it if they are a problem which mine used to be... I actually wonder what caused my population to drop... possibly using less coral foods and / or ozone... and saying that I'd add my foods into the snow in the future. Happy reefing! :)

I used 25 bumblebee snails in my 100g. After a month, they were gone. Coral snow works but it takes a couple of months.to starve the vermetids. Bear in mind with coral snow, you are feeding them mostly calcium that has no nutritional value so in essence you are starving them-and thats a slow process.

@ModernReefer

4 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing the info. I have over 40 bumblebee and they don't go after the large vermetid snails. If I broke the vermetid shell, then they do their work but I just don't have the time to crack all the shells unfortunately.

I think you need to give it longer before judging. I've been dosing a diy snow and after 3-4 weeks I definatly notice less of the feeding lines from the snails. As someone else suggested you could also add bumblebee snails, I would but my clown wrasse would think he was being treated😂

@ModernReefer

4 ай бұрын

I'm going to get a 500ml bottle to try for a month to see if it'll help.

@frgggggdsedd6913

4 ай бұрын

Could it be DIY coral snow and coral snow he has which is branded is not the samething

@mabdulmajeed1

4 ай бұрын

@@ModernReefer Please do an update video on this. Thanks.

@ModernReefer

4 ай бұрын

@@mabdulmajeed1 That is one of the things I need to try again and do it for a month long to see if the results are better. The last time around, I did it for a week and then stopped because I ran out of the coral snow. I'm told I should do it for a month at least. I'll get some ordered and try again soon.

Could it be DIY coral snow and this KZ coral snow isnt the same

@ModernReefer

4 ай бұрын

hum.... not sure. Maybe?

somebody really needs to experiment on what effects them, ie temp, salinity, prey, chemicals etc. they spoil the hobby imo

@ModernReefer

5 ай бұрын

I totally agree. I hate these burgers.