parasitic snails

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MyFishEatYourFish

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i got some live rock a couple months ago and got infested with those parasitic white snails that attach on the bottom of and near the opening to my larger snails like turbos and astreas. there's usually only a few per snail but there's qutie a few(like7) on a couple of my snails. i haven't been too worried but now i want to get clams and know that these parasites will slowly kill them if left unchecked. i haven't got much info from the web about getting rid of them accept to manually pull them off. what other ways can i get rid of them and are there any reefsafe inhabitants that will eat them for me?
 
MyFishEatYourFish;3178296; said:
i got some live rock a couple months ago and got infested with those parasitic white snails that attach on the bottom of and near the opening to my larger snails like turbos and astreas. there's usually only a few per snail but there's qutie a few(like7) on a couple of my snails. i haven't been too worried but now i want to get clams and know that these parasites will slowly kill them if left unchecked. i haven't got much info from the web about getting rid of them accept to manually pull them off. what other ways can i get rid of them and are there any reefsafe inhabitants that will eat them for me?

look them up on yahoo.

Pyramidellid Snails

mr.reef24
 
MyFishEatYourFish;3180697; said:

guess that was what you needed hope you rid the problem. If you ever need help on anything saltwater wise Private Message me.

mr.reef24
 
thanks alot mr. reef!

i've got a question for you then. i have a 90 reef with a six line and have my eye on a christmas wrasse thats about twice the length. i figure since they look so different and there's quite a size diff, that they may be able to coexist. what do you think?
 
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