Buy Clean, Pest Free, Healthy Chaetomorpha AKA Chaeto

 High Quality Chaetomorpha  $15  FREE SHIPPING!

Chaetomorpha AKA Chaeto or Spaghetti Algae, is a genus of green micro algae usually used in refugiums as a biological filter, capable of removing excess nutrients from your marine system, such as nitrates and phosphates!! And it can also help keep nuisance algae from forming in your display tank!!

Our Chaeto is grown in saltwater made from RODI water and Instant Ocean Reef Crystals, and has a salinity of 1.021sg.

Our Chaeto is Very clean, hearty, thick, PEST FREE and extremely healthy. You Will receive 2 large softball size units, contained in a 1 gallon freezer bag that will be about 1/2 full of the chaeto with a small amount of water to keep it happy and healthy during shipping. 

We Ship Chaeto in a flat rate USPS 2 -3 day flat rate priority envelope. And we will include your tracking number with each shipment.

We only ship to the lower 48 states.

You can order by calling or texting Eric @ 828-748-4382 or Karen @ 828-748-6932 or by emailing us at ericsmarinelife@gmail.com 

We will send you a personalized invoice so you can make your payment!!

Vermetid Snail Pest Removal

The Vermetid Snail is a very Unwanted Saltwater Aquarium Pest, A Coral killer,  that is a stationary gastropod, often red, brown or purple in color, that has a hard shell that is cemented hard to your rocks, corals, glass, and other snail shells.

Vermetid Snails will slowly kill your corals by smothering them with the mucus webs they cast from the ends of their open tube shells, which are used to catch food and nutrients they need for survival, the webs often irritate surrounding corals, causing polyps to remain closed eventually ending in tissue loss. 

Vermetids also hurt or slowly kill corals by stealing their much needed calcium, impeding their skeletal growth! Often the Vermetids will attach their selves to a coral causing lesions that will result in tissue loss and tissue damage, eventually killing the coral if not removed.

The best practice is to manually remove the Vermetid Snail, using a razor of sorts to cut the snail from the rock, coral, or whatever it may be attached to from the base of the snail. The snail is not in the tip of the tube, its actually down in the base of the tube as you can see in the picture. 

Some aquarist will glue the tips of the snail closed, which will kill the snail, eventually starving it, but after doing this over a period of time, you will end up with unwanted nutrients in your system due to the dead creature still trapped in your tank. 

There is much controversy about different types of Fish, Dips or Treatments to kill these snails, but from most of the research I have done, I have come to the conclusion that its just best to manually remove them.