Aero,
I picked up a sea hare, turned off all but one of my 6025s for a week and a half, and the results were less than stellar. I'm wondering if it has something to do with the type of algae. I have some patches of a very short green fuzz, not the long filamentous type hair algae. After a week of significantly reduced flow, the only algae he really ate was along the overflow teeth on the inside of the overflow. Whenever I'd see him not on the rocks, I'd pick him up and put him back to work. It never failed that he'd pretty much find the quickest way back to a tank wall or the overflow and disapear for a day or two.
If it's the flow issue that everyone is talking about, I'm kind stuck because in a 60 gallon cube, one modded nanostream is going to create some kind of water movement everywhere. How long can my corals go without decent flow so this guy can get his job done? I'm guessing that everyone's accounts of 2-4 days would probably be fine, but I don't want to harm my other inhabitants just so this guy has comfortable working conditions. It's not the end of the world if he doesn't work out; but I also dont want him starving to death and then releasing whatever dye may be left inside him.
Chris