Well whatever they are, I just pulled five of them off that birdsnest that started dying within the last week. They only come out at night and I only find them on the affected sps or traveling the rockwork. :
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They might just be cleaning up the dead tissue. People used to blame bristle worms for killing clams because people would find them in the dead shell. They were just doing their job.
With those snails, I’d personally pull them and move to the sump. They are whelk-y enough for me to say don’t risk it
Well, I pulled and tossed about 20 of the buggers. My birdsnest has stopped acquiring damage… I posted them on R2R also and they agreed that they’re whelks. On a slightly different note. What kind of coral is this? I got it and they called it a lobo, I’m thinking it’s more like a wellso?
[quote=“Kyle Mench, post:243, topic:9128”]
Well, I pulled and tossed about 20 of the buggers. My birdsnest has stopped acquiring damage… I posted them on R2R also and they agreed that they’re whelks. On a slightly different note. What kind of coral is this? I got it and they called it a lobo, I’m thinking it’s more like a wellso?[/quote]That looks like a metallic green trachyphilia brain. When and if it gets it’s color back will be super bright green.
They will eat whatever food you put on it. I used to feed mine mysis and pellets.
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I tried to offer it some mysis last night and got no reaction. Should I try the upside down soda bottle trick for feeding it? It’s not super puffy, so I don’t think it was all that happy in the prior owners tank.
It started losing its zooanthelle algae that why it has white showing. Doesn’t look to far gone, so it should recover. Might have been in to low/high of lighting before. They are easy to care for with very minimal requirements.
Low flow and low to moderate lighting and time as long as the tissue doesn’t recede it will come back. I love trach’s.
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I tried to feed it this morning using a 2 liter, syringe with food and some air tubing in the lid. This method worked better for me than my previous 2 liter attempts. It has some of the ridges showing through the tissue on the edges, but the mouth opens and closes still. It ate some when I put food in, but it didn’t extend tentacles only opened it’s mouth. I attached a bit of a better picture.
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Well, I pulled and tossed about 20 of the buggers. My birdsnest has stopped acquiring damage… I posted them on R2R also and they agreed that they’re whelks. On a slightly different note. What kind of coral is this? I got it and they called it a lobo, I’m thinking it’s more like a wellso?[/quote]
20?! Sheesh. Good idea to pull them. I’m pretty confident they are whelks.
Yeah, people on R2R agreed they are whelks. I continue to find one or two occasionally, but I’ve got them on the retreat. I find them hiding in the rocks, not eating corals. I gave Donavon two to experiment with and he found them on a sacrificial coral frag within two minutes of dumping them in with the frag. Evil little creatures #@$^ I wonder where they came from
I was thinking that if they were whelks, they could’ve killed my shrimp. When I saw him in the process of molting, there was two of three of those little guys crawling on him.
20 is alot if they came in as only hitchhikers. Must have come in with rocks.
Hopefully now that you did figure out they were bad, you can move on to the good stuff again.
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Those whelks have only showed up in recent weeks. I spend a lot of time tank watching and have never noticed them before. My only other thought is that I got 10 lb of “live sand” that I added and maybe they came in with that? Idk. I found one of those buggers on my pocillopora last night and he chewed up an area of ~1cmx1cm that had great PE before.
On a better note, I think my 20 dollar bargain find is starting to look better?
Whelks readily multiply in our tanks (because of course the bad things do!). That bargain coral is starting to color up nicely for sure!
On a better note, I think my 20 dollar bargain find is starting to look better?
Looking real good, I’m a little jealous. It’s looking like it is puffing up.
Anyone have suggestions for something that will eat these whelks but not shrimp? I thought I was getting ahead of them, but it seems like the next generation has been born… #@$^
Crud… I don’t know what, if anything would. Especially something reef safe.
Guess I’ll just keep monitoring and picking as I find them ::hitsthefan:: last night I was awake pretty late and did a few checks and found them multiple times. I pulled a few frags and found tiny ones at the base of the frags munching. They were impossible to see without actually pulling the frags.
Ok this might sound crazy…
Get some Rubbermaid tubs, drain the tank, fish in one tub, rock and corals in the other
Do this after the lights have been on for a coupe hours (They are in the sand daytime right)
Remove the sand and thoroughly rinse it untill it runs clean the cold tap water should kill any you don’t find
Do your best to inspect the rock work before putting back together.
Probably a 4-6 hour day - a few hours of pain vs an eternity of those little boogers kickin your but
If they are breeding in there your problem may never end…
My 2 cents
Craziness. Never heard of a whelk infestation like this ever before. Hope you are able to eradicate them.
Remember if they look like baby turbo snails they are good.
I was also think if you had a red lens you could put over a flashlight that night help for finding and inspecting at night.
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[quote=“Donavon, post:258, topic:9128”]
Ok this might sound crazy…
Get some Rubbermaid tubs, drain the tank, fish in one tub, rock and corals in the other
Do this after the lights have been on for a coupe hours (They are in the sand daytime right)
Remove the sand and thoroughly rinse it untill it runs clean the cold tap water should kill any you don’t find
Do your best to inspect the rock work before putting back together.
Probably a 4-6 hour day - a few hours of pain vs an eternity of those little boogers kickin your but
If they are breeding in there your problem may never end…
My 2 cents[/quote]Only problem I see with this is he will need to keep the fish in his qt tank for awhile because he will create a nitrate bomb. Also the sand would have to be established again. This is your last ditch effort I’d say.
Second if we are on a all out war here, there is copper, it will leach into anything in the tank and may take quite a while before being coral friendly. There are fish that will kill all snails but then you still gotta worry about your other fish and corals during the mass killings. Then rehoming that fish after the job is complete. How long will it take, the world may never know. Really wish I had a good resolution to this mess you have been battling this for so long.
In a positive note how is that trach looking? Getting brighter yet? I love the greens, I think they are the brightest stand out ones.
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