hair algae outbreak??? Sea Hare for sale or rent

[jlfnjlf]

OK so a week ago I had so much hair algae that I was going crazy. Picked up a Sea Hare from Your Reef, and today not a hair is to be found.:rollface: However with no algae to much on this guy will starve.:eek1: So I figured I would be willing to trade him or his services for soft corals. I am running 192W of PC lighting on a 30g tank so SPS are out of the question, but I would consider just about anything else.

Let me know,

John

 

[Justin74]

You know I was just going to offer paying you rent to :lol:

I'll do it!And heaven forbid something should happen, so I'll put a deposit of what you paid for it, when you let me pick it up.

-Justin

 

[Justin74]

Saw seahare for rent and had to make sure I put my foot in line :lol2: Sure I'll be happy to trade you for soft corals, whatever you prefer. I have a nice solid color of the shroom we were talking about earlier, its 4" wide, and needs to come down. But I have a few other nick naks as well, just harvested some generous sized frags of my cabbage to, there still wrapped up waiting to stick though. Few various zoos, or that ricordea yuma trade we were talkin about.

-Justin

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[funman1]

I was going to "rent" a seahare from CRS.
But hey if we are going to have a "club" one, I'm down for puting down a depsit and renting for however long it takes to clean up mine. And throw in some corals or whatever.

Try an SPS, I have SPS in my 12g nano with only 23 watts!!


Let me know.
I'll take a number, and get in line if you are renting him out

~Steve~

 

[jlfnjlf]

OK Justin you were first on the draw. I'm sure he won't need a week or two to mow the grass, and then perhaps you can work something out with Steve.

Justin,

I'll PM you to work out the details.

Steve,

I do have a little Monti Cap in there, but that is it. I am setting up an 80g with a 60g refugium, and then I may go MH. I am loving the mushrooms and Zoas so much I do not have a lot of room. Oh and I am up to 5 LPS in the tank as well, but I just might stick another sps or two in there. It is only 30g after all. I keep meaining to post a here is my reef post, but somthing else always comes up.

John

 

[Justin74]

Something very exciting is happing dudes

You know how flippen good it feels to see a patch of crap thats been there for years - gone - , cleaned to the bone ?

SAWEEET!!!

-Justin

 

[DarkDevil]

I have some patches here and there too, I know a sea bunny is the best, but it's kind of too big for my current tank, so I was thinking is lettuce nudi just as good? anybody know?

 

[jlfnjlf]

I have a lettuce nudi and it did not touch the haie algae at all.

 

[kdblove_99]

Ok, NOt familiar with sea hares, They wipe hair algae away?

My father in law has some serious hair algae in one of his tanks.

Does your reef still have any, what price and size are they?

Thanks,

Davey

 

[jlfnjlf]

it was like $12 last time I was there they had several

 

[JahReefster]

Is this sea hare still with us in the land of the living, or has he gone on to better things? If so, is he available? I have a horrendous hair algae problem I'd love to clean up (I know it's a symptomatic result that doesn't get to the root cause, but even so).

Does anybody else have experience with sea hares? Do they work in a tank with fish and a couple of RBTAs (Justin?), or will they release a toxin potentially fatal toxin to their tankmates when startled or feeling threatened?

If reports are good, I might see about getting one from O Street or Your Reef, passing it on to another reefer or returning it to the store once the job is done so he doesn't starve to death.

 

[DarkDevil]

I did bite the bullet and got a sea bunny for the hair algae problem b4, it worked perfectly, the bunny mowed everything that's green. you can pull the hair algae all you want, but they ususally grow back, the bunny eats it to the roots and the algae never ever grow back. I did have fish and a RBTA in the tank too, and didn't have a problem. good luck

 

[zgma]

My sea hare worked great. It took out my green hair algea. Just be careful not to let him get close to your powner head. It ate all the algea in the rocks and went after the last pieces in the powner head and I lost him in that way.

 

[JahReefster]

Thanks for the responses. Sounds like a way to go... I assume the LFS will take them back after they've done the job.

I have a Tunze with a profusion of hair algae growing on top of it. I didn't think that would be a problem... I'd hate to have shredded bunny all over the tank!

 

[Justin74]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9817779#post9817779 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by JahReefster

Does anybody else have experience with sea hares? Do they work in a tank with fish and a couple of RBTAs (Justin?), or will they release a toxin potentially fatal toxin to their tankmates when startled or feeling threatened?

I have had 3(4 including the time I temporarily housed Johns) 2 were lost to an 1100 Seio powerhead. So after I swapped the powerhead for a Tunze nano 6045, problem solved with supposedly a lil more flow even. Only time I witnessed ink spewing was when the two of mine got stuck in the seio. I immediately rinsed and placed new carbon, which may explain why I suffered no repracussions. My CB butterfly, maroon clown and chromis all get along and basically pay him no regards, EVEN when he's trimmin around the RBTA which the maroon wont let anyone do, except apparently him

As you noted, only a symptomatic problems will be alleviated, but he certainly does that and I would recommend one for a deep spring cleaning. Also much less destructive than an urchin on your rock and knockin over frags!

-Justin
-Justin

 

[lilleahseafreak]

is any of the green stuff in this photo hair algae? such as the green clumps and long strands near the candycane coral???

i have patches of the bright green fuzzy/bristly stuff all over but its not like totally covering my rocks and at this point i'm fine with what is there.

but if this stuff is hair algae i want to stay on top of its as i know i DON'T want it everywhere (i like my purple rocks!)

i thought that hair algae was the kinda brownish green slimy looking long hairy stuff that shows up in the tank when the water quailty is not so good, but at the meeting some one said the kind people have trouble being rid of is stiff and this stuff is stiff.