After months of reading about these guys I finally broke down and bought one. Shrek has been amazing. As soon as he entered my tank the little guy has been a non stop lawnmower on my hair algae. I've never seen something in my tank eat so much. It's been less then 24hrs and 1/3 of my tank is algaeless. Shrek might need a new how in a couple weeks when the tank can no longer support his hefty appetite. I'll keep everyone posted. Great addition to the tank and so far highly recommended.
I love my new Sea Hare -- Shrek!
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ChickenCannoneer
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Glad to hear that Sean. How did the protein skimmer work out?
ChickenCannoneer
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Yeah what goes in must come out. Yes that is normal I clean mine every week.
ChickenCannoneer
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If he ever needs a permanent home he is welcome in my fuge 
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.nanoreef58
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Sean, where did you get yours I could use 1 my nano has an on again and off again problem, especially now that my tank is getting alot of indirect sunlight
Steveh28 was able to hook me up. He's starting up a new saltwater store right off 480/130th called ABCAquitics. Send him a PM and see if the others are stilla available. In 3 days it has completely rid 95% of my tank from hair algae. The only place it hasn't reached yet is the very top of my rockwork so I plan on moving some it lower so he can clean it off. What is amazing is how well it cleans the rock. It looks better then when I would scrub it with a toothbrush.
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I've had mine in my 180 for about 2 months now and has devoured 95% of the unbelievable amount of hair algae. One more week to go and all of it will be gone, then he's going back into the 75 for a couple of weeks and then back into the 180. You will want to make sure you have sheets of Nori to supply him with after the hair algae is gone. He will die in short time with no algae to feed off of. You can buy 10 or so sheets of it at Meijer or Wal Mart in the oriental food section for maybe a couple of dollars.
Well it's been a little over a week and he's pretty much cleaned house on the algae. It seems to be acting a little weird now, I'm wondering if it's starving. Doesn't move nearly as much, and right now it has buried half it's body under sand. Is this normal? I'm going to buy some Nori Algae tomorrow if I can find some at Walmart and see if that gets him going again.
That's not good, maybe I should pull him out of the tank into a hospital tank, so he doens't crash my display if he dies. I havent seen him eating in a while. He was also climbing alot on the glass a couple days ago, even putting his head out of the water a bit. I actually hand feed him some flake food. Hopefully he pulls through.
