Help Sea Hare Dying or Dead!

[asmodyus]

So this is the second sea Hare that I Have gotten from fancy fish that is dead or is dying.

Now my parameters or in the low to normal area.

Nitrates 5 to 10
salinity is 1.025
PH is 8 to 8.2
Vodka dosing. (week 8)

I dripped acclimated him for 40 minutes not sure whats up, and whats killing them, or are there just a bad batch that I am getting not sure.

Now I have tiger conch's, Clams, scallops, snails, shrimps and all sorts of mixed critter but from some reason I cannot keep a Sea Hare more than 3 days

Now the other thing is maybe there starving and the hair algae I have is a type they do not eat because other than the hair algae my tanks pretty clean.

Here is a picture of my Hair issue

 

[sirrealism]

No that hair algae is right up there ally. What fish do you have? wondering if a fish or shrimp is killing it. They are pretty hardy. I got one about 3 weeks ago and have 4 tanks. I did not drip acclimate him and when he is done with one tank I just pick him up and move him to the next and set him in. Its a drive for you but elite corals on SR54 had them for 25$. not sure if he has any right now but thats where mine came from.
Also your never going to get rid of your hair algae with 5-10 ppm N03. also what is your phos? When was the last time you checked your Mag. Thats what my issue was. Mag had dropped way down.

 

[viper12775]

how big is your tank I have a large flying sea hare you can try but he's 8-10 inches

 

[asmodyus]

thanks only 65 gallons.

Also fish wise, 2 True Clown, Hawkfish, Midas Blenny, Blue throat trigger, Blue azure damsel, 2 Neon Cobies.

than I have the Inverts I said earlier and the shrimp are skunk cleaners. The only thing I can come up with is that they were starved to death or maybe the vodka dosing but you think it would be killing other stuff.

Honestly I am really baffled by this. I realize that my lighting schedule is the main culprit for the hair.

 

[asmodyus]

No that hair algae is right up there ally. What fish do you have? wondering if a fish or shrimp is killing it. They are pretty hardy. I got one about 3 weeks ago and have 4 tanks. I did not drip acclimate him and when he is done with one tank I just pick him up and move him to the next and set him in. Its a drive for you but elite corals on SR54 had them for 25$. not sure if he has any right now but thats where mine came from.
Also your never going to get rid of your hair algae with 5-10 ppm N03. also what is your phos? When was the last time you checked your Mag. Thats what my issue was. Mag had dropped way down.

That is actually whys I started the vodka dosing I can get nitrates down to about 5 to 10 depending on the light for my api tester and my phosphates is always around 0 -.25 with api tester somewhere in between and I been using the new Chem blue and my phosphates are showing near the 0 PPM. I know that its my skimmer that needs upgrading so I can keep it under 5 I am actually on the market for one.

Don't have a mag tester though so no clue, but I do about a biweekly water change with red sea or ESV salt maybe 3 weeks the most.

 

[sirrealism]

Get A mag test kit and pic up your water changes to once a week. i was doing bi weekly water changes with red sea when my mag droped. Roger was doing lots of water changes when his mag droped so it happens. "Not speaking for roger" Just an example
How old is this tank? If you need to upgrade your skimmer then thats even more of a reason to do more water changes

 

[asmodyus]

Get A mag test kit and pic up your water changes to once a week. i was doing bi weekly water changes with red sea when my mag droped. Roger was doing lots of water changes when his mag droped so it happens. "Not speaking for roger" Just an example
How old is this tank? If you need to upgrade your skimmer then thats even more of a reason to do more water changes

Almost a year now. So you say the lack mag is killing the Sea Hares or just helping with the hair issue?

 

[sirrealism]

helping the hair issue. Not sure if it would hurt the sea hare. But I am sure the idea here is to get rid of the hair algae not keep a sea hare long term. Mine is almost done with his job and If I had not promised it to someone else I would give it to you but he is going to a 275g where he will probably never finish. Since they are living such a short amount of time in your tank I would say no they are not starving to death. Call Elite Corals and see if he has another and make the drive. Let me ask you say its dead. Is it because its just not moving. Mine has slept for a couple days at a time before. What is going on that makes you think its dead

 

[asmodyus]

the lack of movement it shrank to a small from. No life at all when picked up or put upside down and does not stick to anything. No movement when light shine on it, the cleaner shrimp all of sudden eating on it. Also really funky smell. Also the certh snail starting circle it.

Plus I had one die on me before not to long ago so I kinda recognized the look and feel of and it really did have very strong sent to it.

And here is pick of it last night before I took it out of the tank this morning.

 

[sirrealism]

In the pic he looks normal but if he stinks then its over

 

[asmodyus]

So I have been reading looks like i could have a different type of hair algae called Bryopsis and that my sea hares starved because I have no other algae in my tank. Any thoughts on this.

 

[Hzuiel]

I had caulerpa galore for mine to eat and it still died. Already started trying to improve water quality to kill the algae in the display. I guess it's a phosphate battle and manual extraction for me. Freaking caulerpa garbage.