Who has kept a Sea Hare?

[jackson6745]

I have been fighting patches of green hair algae on some of my rocks. Manual removal, GFO, water changes, skimming, mexican turbos, and a foxface are steps I have taken to rid my tank of this PITA hair algae. This helped to some degree but I still can't get rid of the algae.
I was curious if anyone has has success with Sea Hares. I heard they release a mild toxin when stresses. No sure if I should go this route. Any advice is appreciated.

 

[Reef Reaper]

I had a sea hare and it cleaned up my hair algae in less than a week. Just be careful, that the sea hare does not get sucked into a return. If you fish leaves the sea hare alone, it will do fine. When you run out of hair algae, just feed the hare seaweed. good luck!! PM with any questions!

 

[morphiii]

I did, ugly little fella

 

[SevTT]

I have been fighting patches of green hair algae on some of my rocks. Manual removal, GFO, water changes, skimming, mexican turbos, and a foxface are steps I have taken to rid my tank of this PITA hair algae. This helped to some degree but I still can't get rid of the algae.
I was curious if anyone has has success with Sea Hares. I heard they release a mild toxin when stresses. No sure if I should go this route. Any advice is appreciated.

I had a sea hare until it had an encounter with a powerhead during a blackout (a Koralia 1 it stuck its head in and the power came back on. Whoops. Anyway, they're great, but they eat a -lot-; have plans to give it away once it has done its job.

 

[Bob 1000]

If your dosing amino acids stop for a while that will keep hair algae there.. Sea hares are okay but knock down frags that are not glued good.

 

[jackson6745]

Thanks for the responses guys. I'm not dosing aminos.
Do the sea hares eat longer 2"+ hair algae? Reaf Reaper I'll be sending you a PM shortly.

 

[Bob 1000]

Some will but the majority will eat 1/4" and under.. Ive seen big ones eat long hair algae, but you could just pull some out and let it finish the rest off.

 

[jackson6745]

Thanks for the tip Tobin