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Pet Forum / Aquaria / Marine Reef / November 2007Sea Hare
Sorry for posting this message twice. I accidentally captioned my last post with a mistake in the subject line and thought it might get caught in sporge onslaught! Recently I have been battling a hair algae problem. I put in a sea hare and phosphate remover and within a couple of days all was good. The sea hare was healthy, but after about a week, he just seemed to dissappear. About a month later, I put another sea hare in. He was there for approximately 2 months or more, moving all over the tank, and then the same thing happened. One day, I didn't notice thim there and that went onto several days, and it looks like this one vanished into thin air. Are these things hardy, do they die with the lack of hair algae to feed on (He seemed to be feeding off the glass and the rocks). > Sorry for posting this message twice. I accidentally captioned my > last post with a mistake in the subject line and thought it might get [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > Are these things hardy, do they die with the lack of hair algae to > feed on (He seemed to be feeding off the glass and the rocks). That's the problem with sea hares. Once the bulk of the algae is gone, they die unless you provide them with an alternate source of food. Would they appear active and normal and then just dissappear one day. If they were starving to death? >> Sorry for posting this message twice. I accidentally captioned my >> last post with a mistake in the subject line and thought it might get [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] >That's the problem with sea hares. Once the bulk of the algae is gone, they >die unless you provide them with an alternate source of food. > Would they appear active and normal and then just dissappear one day. > If they were starving to death? [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > > - Show quoted text - I actually had a similar hair algae issue about 2 weeks ago, and was chatting up the folks here about it, and got some solid advice between here and the LFS...essentially was: add phosphate remover, and let your clean up crew do their thing. I have a 72 gallon tank and the thing was COATED with thick, green hair algae. Well, virtually 2 weeks to the day after adding the phosphate remover, the snails and crabs (8 snails, 5 crabs) have virtually eliminated all of it. I'm actually to the point where I'm considering removing some of the snails becaue I don't know if there's going to be ENOUGH for them to eat...that phosphate remover really did a number on the tank. Here, the advice that I got, was rather than being too worried about the algae itself and trying to add creatures to ditch it, figure out why it's there and rectify that. Then, as long as you have a few 'clean up crew' crusties, the issue will resolve itself. Got phosphates down to 0, the clean up crew was able to make headway and voila, I have a clean tank. Do you have some of those other guys in there? turbo snails, hermits etc? Mitch > Do you have some of those other guys in there? turbo snails, hermits > etc? Good advice. Yeah, I have all the usual suspects. But of course since they were put in years ago, its hard to say how many of them are actually still around! >> Do you have some of those other guys in there? turbo snails, hermits >> etc? > >Good advice. > > Do you have some of those other guys in there? turbo snails, hermits > > etc? > > Good advice. Kurt, Thanks...I'm very new to the hobby, but trying to retain what I'm learning. Mitch > Thanks...I'm very new to the hobby, but trying to retain what I'm > learning. Seems like you're doing fine. :-) They often die even when there's plenty of algae. Wayne Sallee Wayne@WayneSallee.com Steve Heath wrote on 11/14/2007 3:36 PM: >> Sorry for posting this message twice. I accidentally captioned my >> last post with a mistake in the subject line and thought it might get [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > That's the problem with sea hares. Once the bulk of the algae is gone, they > die unless you provide them with an alternate source of food. |
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