How to kill a vermitid sanil...

[X-Treme]

So.... I bought a small frag of Poccillipora(sp?) almost a year ago and it came with a vermitid snail. I asked about it back then and was told "don't worry, the pocci will just grow over it". Well, needless to say, here we are almost a year later and all that has happened is the snail has grown along with the frag. How do I "remove" it from my life?

[Marlin65]

You should be able to just break them off if you want with a pair of side cutters.

[kwirky]

smush it to utter smithereens (shell & all), those suckers grow back like aiptasia

[Drock169]

i treat them like aiptasia, joes juice into their hole, it seems to kill them

[brizzo]

Originally Posted by kwirky

smush it to utter smithereens (shell & all), those suckers grow back like aiptasia

They will over run your tank if you don't snuff them out. I use a good hobby knife to cut/pry their body off the rock. At one point I had hundreds in my tank....

[MikeP]

I had a big one on the side of a coral once. I covered him up with some underwater epoxy.

[X-Treme]

Well..... I can't but him out at all, because he is TOTALLY embedded into the coral. I'm sure his shell is 1/4 of the base of the Pocci.