Sea Hare (Aplysia.sp)

Yes its reef safe I have 1 in mine.I have a basket up in the top corner of my tank that gets lots of algae in it and when he goes in there within an hour its all clean.I have alot of algae for him to eat but hes slowly making headway with my conchs and other inverts and a phosphate absorber.I think they are great and it like wheres waldo trying to find it because it blends in so well with the rocks.
 
He really eats it. He's not stripping it clean (yet) but will go in and thin some out. I was hoping he would stay in one spot and eat it down to the rock but he seems to prefer the short stuff. I'm going to scrub my rock to get rid of the longer stuff but I'm hoping he'll keep it clear after that.
 
I started up a 225g in june and bought live rock from another established tank. Well it sat in an LFS for about a month in garbage cans before my tank was ready and once I put it in my new tank , I had a major outbreak of hair algea. I added 150 snails, 50 hermit crabs and a sea hare.
He really mowed the stuff down. Now a month later, there is absolutely no hare algea left. So I tokk him back for store credit.

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This is the sea hare I had.

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And now the hair algea is completely gone.

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I had a seahare before. Pretty good at cleaning up the hair algae. It somehow got sucked into my seio and died. My seio was touching one of the rocks in my tank.
 
Guys, what is the difference between the Sea Hare and the Sea Hare Giant. Both are (Aplysia.sp)

For both of them there are the sizes, I mean Small, Medium and Large, so don't tell me that's Giant is beacuse is the bigger one..
 
Do you have the full latin name? Aplysia is the family. It could just be a large version of a type of sea hare. I didn't find anything under Giant Sea Hare
 
MJAnderson no I don't have any latin name. I checked the LFS booklet of what he is going to import and there were 2 types of sea hares both aplysia.sp, but one was Giant.

I think you need to run the carbon 24/7 so if a sea hare releases the ink the carbon will clear everything quickly from the tank.
 
Guys, today I bought the Sea Hare (Aplysia.sp) and put it in the tank. On a book I have read that it doesn't like alot of current, is this true?

In my 180g I have 3 tunze streams, 1 is 6080 and 2 are 6060.
Do you think there is alot of flow for him?
 
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I know mine likes the shade, but he has no preference on the flow. I've seen him right in front of my maxijet 900
 
Does it spends alot of time attached to the sides of the tank?

I am asking this because when I put mine and even after few hours, most of the time it spends them, attached to the sides of the tank..

and not eating the Hair algae from the rocks like I want.. lol
 
When I was battling hair algae, sea hares were the best at cleaning it up while I tackled the root of the problem. My sea hare was big 3"+ and never climbed on the glass. It was fairly nocturnal and slept buried in the sand. Flow was not important, as I have Tunzes as well. Is your sea hare smooth or kinda hairy like the picture from bradleyj? I think the hairy ones rip up the hair algae. HTH
 
Yes, he spent some time on the glass. Mine seemed to like to sleep there, right at the water line for some reason. Relax, nature takes a little longer than we usually like...
 
Yes very true. It spends alot of time nearly the water surface. Mine is Medium size, about 3 inches I think.

MJAnderson did it ate the hair algae from your tank? If yess how long it took ?
 
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