Sea Hare

Whats everyones Opinions on them?

 

Fix whatever's causing your algae problem before adding something to eat it. I've never had them live very long in my tanks and when they die, it can be disastrous.

 

They do an amazing job of cleaning your tank of hair algae. Their main downside is that you have to have a plan for where it will go when you run out of algae. At the store, we would sell them and if they brought them back within 3 weeks, we gave them 50% store credit.

 

awesome. Cause im having a horrible fight with hair algae on the back of my tank. Nowhere else just the back glass. I picked one up yesterday, he started eating but i woke up to him burried under the sand.

 

They are some of most gentle CUC you can find. Never heard of one knocking things over, but like others said you will run out of food for it. How big is your tank. There are a few awesome fish that will knock out algae and keep it gone for good.

 

I have a 75 gallon. I Just got some macroalgae for my sump to help. And i even bought a algae blenny. But nothing seems to be working

 

ive never had sucess with them mine will eat the hair algae for a few days and then BAM there dead for no reason my parameters are fine so i either have very bad luck or these things arent hardy at all

 

Sea Hares seem to be hit or miss. We are always able to keep them alive in our stock tanks for a good amount of time. Once we add them to a customers aquarium, we're not really sure what happens after that point. Some live for years and keep hair algae to a minimum, some eat hair algae for a few weeks and disappear.

We acquired a reef account and the customer had a horrible case of hair algae. We added a smaller size sea hare (some of the sea hares we get in are like a foot long ) and he has been thriving in the tank for years. The tank looks great, and he eliminated all the hair algae except for a small patch which the sea hare keeps well trimmed and it looks pretty cool in the tank.

 

Bristletooth tangs would do well in that size and eat hair algae like crazy.

 

Hair Algae. But it only seems to be on the back of my glass. Nowhere else, a little on the sand but most of my hermits and snails took care of that.