are these what I think they are?

[Proteus]

I had a run in with these. Daily removal with tweezers and brush the shell with a toothbrush. Of coarse not over your tank

[christyf5]

oh yay. guess I've got my work cut out for me Thanks for the links Greg!

[christyf5]

Originally Posted by Proteus

I had a run in with these. Daily removal with tweezers and brush the shell with a toothbrush. Of coarse not over your tank

how long do you figure it took before you felt you were free of them?

[Aquattro]

Can you remove the clam? If so, dump it in a bucket of RO for 20 minutes.

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by Aquattro

Can you remove the clam? If so, dump it in a bucket of RO for 20 minutes.

Wait. That's for pinched mantle. But I suppose it might kill off some snails too.

[Doug]

Sheez Christy. Guess I had better check mine.

[christyf5]

Easy peasy. Scrubbed off about 100-150 of the little buggers. No egg masses that I noticed but they got scrubbed off too and I went after the scutes with a little pick. Clam is clean for now and its business as usual in the tank. Guess I should feed the fish more, one of my tangs tried to take a chunk out of my arm

Now to attempt to do this every second night. Should be interesting...

[gregzz4]

Originally Posted by christyf5

Guess I should feed the fish more, one of my tangs tried to take a chunk out of my arm

Ha

I couldn't find info on the web to nail down the incubation period of these little buggers

Did it say anything in one of the links ? I must have missed it

From what I can find on the web, they can take anywhere from 3-18 days to hatch - temp dependant ....

[darkreef]

Put your clam in a small dish with some sand . The snails burrow in the sand in the daytime . Throw out the sand come day time and scrub and remove them nighttime . Do this until there are no more !

(Also the snails may lay eggs on the sand next to the clam by accident )

Takes about a month to get rid of them but always keep checking

[paddyob]

Won't certain wrasses help with this?