Could This Be My Problem

[1entra]

Well any chance you can move your more expensive corals and inverts into a QT tank? Then you could add a predatory fish to eat the snails

 

[Lynden]

An Arothron puffer would take them out. These are among the most omnivorous of all tetraodonts, so inverts would need to be removed for a while.

 

[chrissaysyes]

Please do that

 

[andywg]

Leave it, let the corals die and then go FOWLR pred tank. You know you want to Mark

 

[Dorkhedeos]

A hungry trigger would dig for the snails during the day, wouldnt it?

A hungry trigger will also eat all your coral if it doesnt find the snails

 

[Lynden]

Er... no. Triggers don't eat very much coral and none that the OP has.

 

[pengy666]

Like that lynden

"very much corals"

 

[chrissaysyes]

Triggers wouldnt eat soft corals at all would they?

 

[1entra]

Ive heard triggers nip at most corals?

 

[Lynden]

No trigger eats soft corals. A few of the larger benthic species, including titan, undulate, and lagoon triggers eat SPS but not very much of it, hence, "very much coral".

 

[chrissaysyes]

That's what I thought, I wouldnt think they'd go after many things that wouldnt involve them grinding their teeth.

 

[mark7616]

Right I managed to get a few pics of the snails there a reddish colour so any ideas on what these could be and what I can do to get rid of them now we know what they are?

 

[1entra]

That to me looks like a Collonista Snail which are beneficial and quite good:

These small algae grazers are nocturnal. You'll notice little white spots on your glass, which upon closer inspection, are tiny checkerboard snails. They will reproduce well and are beneficial. They stay small. The largest one I've seen is about 1/4" across.

Or it can be Sundial Snails whish are bad:

The "trap door" covering their opening is the giveaway sign that you are dealing with a sundial. These critters are zoanthid eaters. The only way to eradicate them safely is manual removal

Hitchhikers link

 

[chrissaysyes]

Judging by the ridges in the shell in the second pic, I would say it's probably not Collonista. Wouldnt rule out sun dial though. More pics would help.

 

[SkiFletch]

Look like the same prics I had in my tank that eats smaller zoanthids, but leaves larger palythoa alive