Wedge sea hare

[MidMichiganReef]

I have a few patches of GHA in my bio cube. I've used a sea hare to clean it up before so after looking for a long time (limited selection here) I finally dropped 1 in a week and a half ago.

The problem is he hasn't touched my GHA patches. He's rarely if ever on the rocks and just circles the glass of the tank. He's alive and healthy looking and very mobile so he must be eating something. Should I just wait it out and eventually he'll get to it? The first sea hare cleaned my tank in 4 days.

 

[pagojoe]

Decent chance you got a different species this time???

 

[MidMichiganReef]

I'm almost certain they were both wedge sea hares. I'm no sea hare expert but I've had 3 or 4 throughout the years. This one for sure is a wedge.

 

[Calappidae]

Different algea?

My sea hare starved in a bryopsis dominated reef.

 

[MidMichiganReef]

This is 100% GHA

 

[MidMichiganReef]

Well the tale of this wedge sea hare came to a conclusion yesterday when I found him lodged in the mp10 with a clean decapitation. It must have been shortly before I got there because his body was still mostly inflated.

For those wondering, I did have the foam cover on it. It either was pushed off by him or somehow fell off.