Taylorhardy1 Posted February 28, 2018 Share Posted February 28, 2018 I got a seahare about a month ago to help clear up a gha issue I was battling. He cleaned up my main rock structure really well, and then the day I was planning on taking him back I was given some corals and rocks with a bit of gha on it so I figured I'd keep him till the gha was cleaned off the recent additions. He was mowing through the algae since the day I got him. Today there's still a little bit of gha for him to eat, but when I stopped by my house on my lunch break I found him looking like this. Obviously not good at all. Ive been testing phosphate, ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate regularly lately with both ammonia and nitrite being undetectable, and nitrates somewhere between 0 and 5. Things have been more stable than ever recently. I swapped out sumps a few days ago on my semi regular water change day and only changed the normal amount, using what I could of the old water in order to help prevent swings as much as possible. Everything else has reacted to the new changes quite well. I definitely don't think it's a water quality issue. None of my fish ever picked on him either so I'm not quite sure what could have caused this. Essentially what I'm wondering is should I leave him in there and give him a chance to potentially pull through, or is he too far gone for any hope of recovery? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youcallmenny Posted February 28, 2018 Share Posted February 28, 2018 I had a very similar experience with the one sea hare I've had. Once that bone is coming out of them it's pretty much over from there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taylorhardy1 Posted February 28, 2018 Author Share Posted February 28, 2018 I figured. Think it will be okay to leave in the tank for a few more hours till I'm off work? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youcallmenny Posted March 1, 2018 Share Posted March 1, 2018 Well I mean the worst it's going to do is die. I don't think they do anything particularly harmful other than nitrates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lewisriverfisherman Posted March 1, 2018 Share Posted March 1, 2018 I would take it out myself, or keep a very close eye on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bicyclebill Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 I’ve never had a sea hare live longer than a month or so myself. They starve pretty quickly. If you want an algae eater of the same variety I recommend an abalone. I’ve had mine for several years now and it does the same thing the sea hare was good for Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taylorhardy1 Posted March 2, 2018 Author Share Posted March 2, 2018 9 hours ago, Bicyclebill said: I’ve never had a sea hare live longer than a month or so myself. They starve pretty quickly. If you want an algae eater of the same variety I recommend an abalone. I’ve had mine for several years now and it does the same thing the sea hare was good for Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk I'll have to give them a look. The idea with the seahare was to have it eat as much as possible, then do a flucanozole treatment after it was gone to kind of help with keeping nutrients a bit more stable during the algae die off. Was hoping to have less algae to deal with when starting treatment though! This guy mowed through everything from gha and bryopsis, to excess macro that somehow attached to rock work, just didn't quite finish cleaning the tank by the time he passed unfortunately. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emerald525 Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 I’ve never had much luck with seahorses either. Mine always ended up finding the vortech. They do starve pretty quickly but I have known people to keep them for a year or more too. I also had one that actually cleaned up my cyano and died from that but man the tank looked great. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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