parasitic snails! help!

[MyFishEatYourFish]

how can i get rid of the tiny parasitic white snails on the bottom of my turbos and astreas without manually picking them off. i want to get clams soon and its my understanding that these parasites will kill them.
any advice will be really helpful, thank you.

 

[mr.reef24]

how can i get rid of the tiny parasitic white snails on the bottom of my turbos and astreas without manually picking them off. i want to get clams soon and its my understanding that these parasites will kill them.
any advice will be really helpful, thank you.

Sixline wrasse love them also you could take all the turbo's and astrea's put into your quarantine tank to. To minimize the food for Pyramidellid Snails. This is a link to a article on them is this the snail your finding?

http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2006-09/jf/index.php


mr.reef24

 

[MyFishEatYourFish]

yep thats them thanks!

 

[MyFishEatYourFish]

i already have a six line in my 90 gallon, are there any other pyram eaters besides wrasses and that crab suggested in the article? i know generally that wrasses don't get along, are there any that would possibly get along with my six line and eat the pyrams?

 

[mr.reef24]

i already have a six line in my 90 gallon, are there any other pyram eaters besides wrasses and that crab suggested in the article? i know generally that wrasses don't get along, are there any that would possibly get along with my six line and eat the pyrams?

Six-line's do a great job with those snail's. As far as any other Pyramidellid Snails predator's I have not read anything on that but I will research it for you this week and see if I come up with anymore reference's for you.

mr.reef24