What kind of worm is this?

[goliwala]

I these little suckers all over my LR. The are not feather dusters because I got plenty of those too. this thing almost looks like dwarf Florida Certh but it doesn't move. The mouth emits while slimy thing when stressed which can cover my SPS at times. I was blowing debris off my rocks with a turkey baster and these things started to spit white slimy stuff that was clinging to the SPS and stuck to the LR as well.

This looks like it can stress my corals, maybe that's why some of the Zoas are not fully opened (only a few polyps here and there).

how can I get rid of this? its not as easy as plucking it off the rocks, its all over just like the mini feather dusters.

 

[Bjreef562]

They're called vermetid snail if I'm not mistaken, they can become a nuisance in large numbers, the slime they emit can also irritate corals. I remove them by just picking them off with my fingers and tossing them away

 

[goliwala]

Man, there are hundreds of these in the tank, some in impossible to get places. Anything eats them naturally?

 

[goliwala]

Anyone battled these suckers and won? I am going with the suggestion of adding a yellow coris wrasse and destroying the ones I can see and easily get to. Lets see how it goes.