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    Posted: October 11 2015 at 5:52pm
Anyone have any experience mixing wrasses with sea hares? We have a sea hare (larger) in our predator tank. We lucked out that the puffer (puffer goes by it, but it's more a curiosity), lion fish, and trigger have no interest in it at all... probably based on its size. I've read different things, and they say wrasses are pretty safe with them, but want to see if anyone has any experience. We will most likely be adding a red coris wrasse, and/or banana wrasse.
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I would not be concerned with a Wrasse picking on a Sea Hare, but would be more concerned with how I was going to feed the Sea Hare to keep it alive.

A Sea Hare's typical food is not just algae but bacterial and other organic matter growing on the LR and glass, so after it cleans up everything it was brought in to do, it moves around more, looking for more to eat. This often leads to getting caught in powerheads and overflows, to pollute the tank and die. If that doesn't happen, it just starves and slowly fades away behind the rocks. This sometimes leads to another outbreak of nuisance algae. Unhappy

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