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Topic: sea hare

Posted By: hydro phoenix
Subject: sea hare
Date Posted: October 23 2011 at 3:11pm

I bought one yesterday for a hair algae problem I have and it squished itself into the corner of the tank. Then my husband and I came home this afternoon and it buried itself under the sand. Is this normal?

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Posted By: Sculpin
Date Posted: October 23 2011 at 3:26pm

Yup, normal. Try and keep an eye on them though. They are very picky to large parameters shifts and they can starve out pretty fast too. When they die, I've herd they can really turn a tank toxic. I've had two and both died within about 6 months (I believe from starvation) but both times I saw it was dead and pulled it out.

That's my 2 cents.

Micah

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Posted By: ReefdUp
Date Posted: October 23 2011 at 8:47pm

Burying is normal, and I've had some that have only come out at night.

Sea hares only live about one year, and you never know how old they are when you get them. I wouldn't feel too bad Sculpin if yours made it 6 months. Their life cycle is pretty crazy...so since they don't live long, they participate in mass reproduction (keeping the site a bit more family-friendly). LOL. Last I heard there was a university or some such that got them to successfully breed like mad down in FL, but they weren't available to the public yet. I'd be a big supporter of captive-bred sea hares, especially since we could roughly know their age (and not shell out $$ for a blue-dot one or something silly to have it die of old age a few weeks later.)

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