Hey langley reefer, sorry to hear about your frogspawn! Vermetid snails are a real pain to get rid of. I've dealt with them in several tanks before (in one 90 gallon, they covered every square inch of the rock work!-not my tank-).
The only sure fire way to prevent them from taking over is to stop feeding flakes or anything that fills the water column for a while (the goal is to remove a food source for them), stick to pellets and target feeding mysis etc. Keep the tank clean with regular water changes, wet skimming and start clipping them off with a pair of small bone cutters/pliers when you do your regular water changes and they'll soon die out. Manual removal alone is not enough.
I had them in my current tank about a year ago and im pleased to say they're all gone.
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