Yep, Bumble Bee Snails eat Vermetid snails.
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Have you seen any snails crawl on the rocks and eat them?
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My vermetid snails are living on my favorite rock so I can't mess with it. It had covered that rock with webs. Now, I have directed my flow pump towards it and it's web is gone! Now they are coming out of the rock!
Nice. Where did you get yours and how many did you put in your tank?
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LFS there are 200 of them in the 14' display
are the above pictures taken day time? Cause i have bumblebee snails, but mines only come out at night. I also have vermited snails, still see bunch of weds here and there.
I added 6 and it did not take a day for them to be right on recently discovered vermatids
Can confirm. These lil guys were a God send for me. I picked up 3 for a reefer 170 that was infested and within a month i saw a huge change. theyre almost all gone
My 75g tank is infested bad, and I dropped in 18 BB snails over the last couple months. They’re constantly at work. I don’t see nearly as many webs as I did. It’s too bad the tube shells stay put because it’s hard to tell what’s happening to the infestation, and they’re annoying.
At the risk of bumping an old tread can you provide an update and some more info and maybe close-up pics on the type on Vsnails you have, please?
My old system had them bad and I tried BB snails but I never saw one eat one or a reduction in their numbers at all.
I tried a TON of other things like starving, urchins, coral snow, etc but nothing seemed to work for me.
Fast forward to today and my new tank (downsize when I moved) has them starting to pop up. I'm manually removing around 3-4 a week until this week when I found 24 yesterday.
I honestly hate these things with a passion and I would love to have some more info regarding your success/progress.
Many thanks!
My old system had them bad and I tried BB snails but I never saw one eat one or a reduction in their numbers at all.
I tried a TON of other things like starving, urchins, coral snow, etc but nothing seemed to work for me.
Fast forward to today and my new tank (downsize when I moved) has them starting to pop up. I'm manually removing around 3-4 a week until this week when I found 24 yesterday.
I honestly hate these things with a passion and I would love to have some more info regarding your success/progress.
Many thanks!
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Wonder how many it would take for an infestation in a 6ft 180g tank 
I don't know how many vermatids I have because I can't count that high
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