Thinking ahead, sea hare swap near Irvine

[JojosReef]

Hi all,

I have a sea hare working in my Fluval Evo. Algae isn't quite under control yet, but on it's way. Once I've cleared all GHA, I would like to lend out my sea hare to a good tank somewhere near Irvine (no charge). It can be returned or lent to another tank once your algae problems are fixed!

Please let me know if you are near Irvine and might need a sea hare in the near future.

Cheers

 

[bsk997]

Hey,
I would love to rent/borrow/buy your sea hare!
Been dealing with GHA for quite some time and can't find any at the local LFS.
Let me know when it's ready sir.
Thanks

 

[JojosReef]

Hey,
I would love to rent/borrow/buy your sea hare!
Been dealing with GHA for quite some time and can't find any at the local LFS.
Let me know when it's ready sir.
Thanks

Great! It's been working. Sometimes takes a break and buries it's head in the sand. But, I think it'll be ready next week at this rate. Work for you?

Let's start with a simple borrow and see how it goes.

 

[bsk997]

Yeah, that works for me.
Thanks

 

[reeferaddicto]

Did you emerald crab from reefcleaners got rid of the bubble algae ?

 

[JojosReef]

Did you emerald crab from reefcleaners got rid of the bubble algae ?

I've had some territorial issues with my crabs. One ReefCleaners emerald has been *allegedly* killing off the others a few days to weeks after adding them. It eats bubble algae at a moderate pace.

Biggest problem is the top rock, which is owned by my spotted nem crab, and he seems very selective about when/where he allows the emerald to clean, so the bubble algae is worst up there.

Overall, not disappointed, but not overly thrilled.

 

[JojosReef]

@bsk997 I'm sorry, but the sea hare died. It was hanging out in the codium bush and I thought it was just munching away. Today started turning white and I knew it died.

Sorry about that! I am not sure what the problem was. NO3 was running in the 10-20ppm range as usual, and salinity has been stable. My system runs high Mg, so maybe it couldn't tolerate that for so long. Still GHA and other macro in the tank so I figured it wasn't starving.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Please close post.

 

[bsk997]

Sorry to hear it!
They're so hard to find locally.

 

[JojosReef]

Sorry to hear it!
They're so hard to find locally.

I got mine from Tong's. It was a bit on the pricey side at $26. I am going to look for a turbo for now instead--the sea hare is a bit stresful because it likes to go up next to the powerhead, and of course I worry about it crashing the tank.

What I started doing to slowly kill off the GHA is get a baby bottle nipple, cut a big enough hole at the tip to push my feeding pipette through, fill the pipette with hydrogen peroxide, drop the pipettelbackeard nipple on top of a patch of GHA and then slowly drip the H2O2 onto the GHA. It basically spot treats the GHA in tank and in 2 days the patch is white and clearing away. I only do a patch or two at a time, but it work well.

 

[Dipan00]

Seahares seem to be super hard to keep alive. If your dealing with algae issues get a bunch of Tiger Trochus snails. Those do way more work than turbo snails in my opinion.

 

[JojosReef]

Seahares seem to be super hard to keep alive. If your dealing with algae issues get a bunch of Tiger Trochus snails. Those do way more work than turbo snails in my opinion.

Thanks, I do have a few banded trochus, and they spend time all over the glass and the rocks, but I don't see them attacking the thicker mats of GHA, which are also difficult to remove manually. So was hopig the sea hare would be a real lawn mower, but it was mostly meh.

I was just at Petco on Culver and they had the tiniest tuxedo urchin I've seen, but they were selling it for $40! I think there were a few pink hairs on it, so maybe they thought it was special (??).

FYI, off topic, but that same Petco had a $50 derasa clam, which I thought was a shame bwcI don't think they jave the lights to support a clam. I hope someone takes it soon--didn't look all that colorful, but I don't know if that is just a less colorful specimen or less color from lack of light.