Great share! I've used dolabella hairs for new system set ups for over a decade and I've never had a toxicity issue. The only issue I've had is depending on where my lfs gets the dolabella is from sometime they will live for 6+ months and sometimes not even 6 days.... Just gotta get a good one and make sure it likes to eat the type of algeas ur battling.other than that I will say I've always been on lookout of I have one to make sure it doesn't die and degrade in my system. If u ever pull out a dead one it's basically a giant booger and I could only imagine the chaos that would cause in an aquarium if it's dead and not removed accordingly.
Thanks Philip. yeah, seems like there is a common theme of people getting them and having them die a week later... i wonder if there is a local difference in terms of where the sea hares come from... i hope mine last for more than a week! yes i agree, if one dies, that is a lot of decomposing tissue that can overwhelm a small system, i just haven't heard anything like a sea hare just totally nuking a system because of poison... all the best!
I have had one as well and yes it did a amazing job of cleaning up my GHA but on the seventh day I found it dead and maybe it died at night and I saw maybe in the morning close to noon and sent see it release anything in the tank. So you are maybe right the Dollabella Sea Hare are probably not toxic for the reef tank. I was not sure if I would add but glad I did.. thank you for the info and research..
These guys are amazing :) - i can hire these lovely sea hares from my LFS. Once he has eaten everything we hand them back for the next customer. As long as they have enough food they are happy. :)
Sea hares are awesome, we had battled gha for 10 months a few years back in our 125 gallon tank and was losing the battle, it was long and on the rocks everywhere, it took the sea hare about 2 weeks to eat it all. When we were removing the gha by hand it always grew back, obviously we were leaving traces of it behind, but the sea hare ate it so thoroughly it didn't grow back at all.
We didn't do anything too special, just temperature acclimated it in the bag it came in from the lfs down in the sump for about 15 minutes, then opened the bag, drained enough water out of the bag to still keep the hare immersed with water and returned the bag with the hare into the sump for gravity reasons, then used air line tube with a tap on the end to drip acclimate from the display into the bag about 2 drips per second for about an hour. We always like to keep the bag in the sump instead of acclimating into a bucket so there's no change in temperature. Once the acclimation process is finished all the water in the bag is disposed, it never goes in the tank, and the hare was placed into the display tank.
@@TheBioReef I don't know. It happened during the night both times. I was even a worse reefer back in those days, so it could very well be that my water parameters were way off & that triggered the reaction.
I always keep a few turbo snails, but imo they aren't great for anything other that algae on your glass. They tend to bulldoze frags and it's annoying to flip them when they tip. Trochus snails are the best along with a sea hair or if you have the space scopus tangs, rabbit fish, etc
Ola AmroAzul I hope you're in good health. I want to know something, I once bought a Dolabela and at that time my aquarium was with many algae hair, but after the Dolabela eating all the algae, and died. Can you tell me what Donabela can eat when there are no more seaweed reserves? Greetings, Olavo.
Hi Olavo ... i think that is the issue - they need the algae... without it they starve. [ i have hear of some feeding the sea hares nori seaweed, but i didn't have much luck with that)
I may try a sea hare again but my last one didn't make it in the 20 g nano. I guess your clam didn't make it either it's been tough with Tridacnas. Surprisingly I have a flame scallop that's doing well so far since last Oct.
I removed the rocks with the hair algae and used a dropper (with 3% hydrogen peroxide) I hit all of the green hair algae that is on the rocks, and these rocks have high end corals, but I try not to get any hydrogen peroxide on the corals. I wait about 2 minutes, rinse the areas I hit and put back in the tank. The algae bubbles for a few hours, and one weeks later, the hair algae turns white and dies off. I am also using Vibrant now for three months and don't have any brown algae, dinos, or cyano in the tank- and I had all three and was totally frustrated with the hobby- this is best product ever and is far from snake oil but it takes months to work so be patient. When I started, I would only dose once every two weeks after the weekly water change for two months. I am now dosing once a week after the water change and all of my corals are happy and consuming more alk and cal now. I am thinking of posting my first video with my tank because it worked so well.
about 2 years ago i had a sea hair that grew so big put him in the sump about a year doubled in size one day came home noticed my skimmer was not working at full power went to go look and found the sea hairs head was stuck it let out something in the tank and i lost a lot of fish all fish where breathing hard and 30 % water change and doubled up on carbon. I managed to save the rest of my fish be cautious. took water sample that night before i did the water change sent in ICP test obviously nothing should up. Just wanted to share my sea hair story. I still would get one but when it does its job i would definitely pass it on to another reefer or give it back to the LFS
@@TheBioReef Yes, I also had the same problem after she ate all the algae in my aquarium, she started to get very hard and then it seemed like she was slowly undoing it. this means that it seems that no one knows well how to feed Dolabella and get longer alive in our aquarium. This starts to get an interesting, smile.
yeah, i think so - i think the leopard wrasse is probably the culprit ... they don't call them leopards for nothing :) but its not drastic - i mean that a few will persist for a a few month before all die / get eaten
Hi Alan. so far so good. only two minor issues of salt build up in the Venturi inlet that caused an overflow... something that i now inspect more regularly. But other than that, i am very happy with it
@@TheBioReef my question how to avoid sea hare from toxic the tank if I want to keep it and what do I need to feed it if agea done? Another question is sea urchin eating coral?and is that right anemone toxic the tank if die?thank you for your patience.
A sea hare released purple liquid once in my tank and it paralysed all my fishes and inverts, after I moved the fish and invert to a clean tank they soon “woke” up
Great share! I've used dolabella hairs for new system set ups for over a decade and I've never had a toxicity issue. The only issue I've had is depending on where my lfs gets the dolabella is from sometime they will live for 6+ months and sometimes not even 6 days.... Just gotta get a good one and make sure it likes to eat the type of algeas ur battling.other than that I will say I've always been on lookout of I have one to make sure it doesn't die and degrade in my system. If u ever pull out a dead one it's basically a giant booger and I could only imagine the chaos that would cause in an aquarium if it's dead and not removed accordingly.
Thanks Philip. yeah, seems like there is a common theme of people getting them and having them die a week later... i wonder if there is a local difference in terms of where the sea hares come from... i hope mine last for more than a week! yes i agree, if one dies, that is a lot of decomposing tissue that can overwhelm a small system, i just haven't heard anything like a sea hare just totally nuking a system because of poison... all the best!
I have had one as well and yes it did a amazing job of cleaning up my GHA but on the seventh day I found it dead and maybe it died at night and I saw maybe in the morning close to noon and sent see it release anything in the tank. So you are maybe right the Dollabella Sea Hare are probably not toxic for the reef tank. I was not sure if I would add but glad I did.. thank you for the info and research..
thanks for sharing your thoughts !
These guys are amazing :) - i can hire these lovely sea hares from my LFS. Once he has eaten everything we hand them back for the next customer. As long as they have enough food they are happy. :)
Bongos Reef maybe I’ll have to start a hare rental service!
Do you have Digitate Hydroids? When you zoomed in it seemed like it saw them floating about off the rocks.
Sea hares are awesome, we had battled gha for 10 months a few years back in our 125 gallon tank and was losing the battle, it was long and on the rocks everywhere, it took the sea hare about 2 weeks to eat it all. When we were removing the gha by hand it always grew back, obviously we were leaving traces of it behind, but the sea hare ate it so thoroughly it didn't grow back at all.
can you share you process of acclimation... my sea hare died within a week of introduction
We didn't do anything too special, just temperature acclimated it in the bag it came in from the lfs down in the sump for about 15 minutes, then opened the bag, drained enough water out of the bag to still keep the hare immersed with water and returned the bag with the hare into the sump for gravity reasons, then used air line tube with a tap on the end to drip acclimate from the display into the bag about 2 drips per second for about an hour. We always like to keep the bag in the sump instead of acclimating into a bucket so there's no change in temperature. Once the acclimation process is finished all the water in the bag is disposed, it never goes in the tank, and the hare was placed into the display tank.
@@koaleighhomestead2606 thanks for sharing your method
I had one of these in my previous tank & it did release pink ink twice. It didn’t kill anything, but the skimmer was a fountain/mess for a while:D
interesting ... what made it release the pink ink?
@@TheBioReef I don't know. It happened during the night both times. I was even a worse reefer back in those days, so it could very well be that my water parameters were way off & that triggered the reaction.
The Coraline algae is incredible! How did you get it like that?
Not sure just happens naturally over timr
How do you handle the Trochus snail baby population? I added 20 trochus snails to my tank and now i've got like 200 baby snailss running around!
Johnny Liu I wonder if my wrasses eat some of the Baby snails - I don’t have a population problem despite having them spawn every month or two
I always keep a few turbo snails, but imo they aren't great for anything other that algae on your glass. They tend to bulldoze frags and it's annoying to flip them when they tip. Trochus snails are the best along with a sea hair or if you have the space scopus tangs, rabbit fish, etc
Ola AmroAzul
I hope you're in good health.
I want to know something, I once bought a Dolabela and at that time my aquarium was with many algae hair, but after the Dolabela eating all the algae, and died.
Can you tell me what Donabela can eat when there are no more seaweed reserves?
Greetings, Olavo.
Hi Olavo ... i think that is the issue - they need the algae... without it they starve. [ i have hear of some feeding the sea hares nori seaweed, but i didn't have much luck with that)
I recently added an algae scrubber (1 month ago). Now I have 0 GHA in my 190 reef. I clean the scrubber screen every Sunday and good to go!
nice... i heard they can be effective. i am happy with my fuge, although the lights on the display are much more powerful than the light on the fuge
AmroAzul TV I don’t have room for a fuge so the scrubber seems a good alternative. Disadvantage is no pods😪
I may try a sea hare again but my last one didn't make it in the 20 g nano. I guess your clam didn't make it either it's been tough with Tridacnas. Surprisingly I have a flame scallop that's doing well so far since last Oct.
yeah my clam didn't make it E... it didn't have an idea location with a good amount of light and low flow
I removed the rocks with the hair algae and used a dropper (with 3% hydrogen peroxide) I hit all of the green hair algae that is on the rocks, and these rocks have high end corals, but I try not to get any hydrogen peroxide on the corals. I wait about 2 minutes, rinse the areas I hit and put back in the tank. The algae bubbles for a few hours, and one weeks later, the hair algae turns white and dies off. I am also using Vibrant now for three months and don't have any brown algae, dinos, or cyano in the tank- and I had all three and was totally frustrated with the hobby- this is best product ever and is far from snake oil but it takes months to work so be patient. When I started, I would only dose once every two weeks after the weekly water change for two months. I am now dosing once a week after the water change and all of my corals are happy and consuming more alk and cal now. I am thinking of posting my first video with my tank because it worked so well.
Merci pour ta vidéo !!! 👍👍👍
my pleasure Guy
about 2 years ago i had a sea hair that grew so big put him in the sump about a year doubled in size one day came home noticed my skimmer was not working at full power went to go look and found the sea hairs head was stuck it let out something in the tank and i lost a lot of fish all fish where breathing hard and 30 % water change and doubled up on carbon. I managed to save the rest of my fish be cautious.
took water sample that night before i did the water change sent in ICP test obviously nothing should up. Just wanted to share my sea hair story. I still would get one but when it does its job i would definitely pass it on to another reefer or give it back to the LFS
thanks Carlos, good to know, do you know what type of sea hare was it ?
Mexican turbo snails are larger and more expensive but they do allot of damage to gha and others, I would try those also!
yeah, i did a few times.. they don't last as long in my tank for some reason though
What do you suggest for turf algae? Its a bitch to remove and im scared of trying fluconazole due to only beating dinos a month ago.
Marcel Rodriguez not sure Marcel - haven’t had to deal With it before
And when Dolabella just ate all the algae, what are you going to feed her?
Olavo de Jesus Pires my plan was to put it in my fuge but alas, sea hare died 2 or 3 days after I shot the video
@@TheBioReef Yes, I also had the same problem after she ate all the algae in my aquarium, she started to get very hard and then it seemed like she was slowly undoing it. this means that it seems that no one knows well how to feed Dolabella and get longer alive in our aquarium. This starts to get an interesting, smile.
The wrasses are killing your hermits probably . They are very resistent in my tank.
yeah, i think so - i think the leopard wrasse is probably the culprit ... they don't call them leopards for nothing :) but its not drastic - i mean that a few will persist for a a few month before all die / get eaten
how do you find your red sea skimmer now you have had it for some time now?
Hi Alan. so far so good. only two minor issues of salt build up in the Venturi inlet that caused an overflow... something that i now inspect more regularly. But other than that, i am very happy with it
Sea hares are dope!!!!
they are very cool looking eh!
Without further ado,my tank is 29 gallons can I put sea hare in my reef tank?
i wouldn't recommend it on a tank that size. Are you battling a specific type of algae ?
@@TheBioReef yes
@@mohamadalamri7941 what kind of algae?
@@TheBioReef hair Algea and regular Algea
@@TheBioReef my question how to avoid sea hare from toxic the tank if I want to keep it and what do I need to feed it if agea done? Another question is sea urchin eating coral?and is that right anemone toxic the tank if die?thank you for your patience.
A sea hare released purple liquid once in my tank and it paralysed all my fishes and inverts, after I moved the fish and invert to a clean tank they soon “woke” up
thanks for sharing Bryan - do you know what type of sea hare was it?
AmroAzul TV it was a blue spotted sea hare I believe
@@shizo_bioc80022 hmm... that is in the same genus as mine... perhaps it make a difference re. where they were collected from
AmroAzul TV the source is unknown but I live in Asia so perhaps it’s collected there?
Will they eat bryopsis?
i am not entirely sure Shawn ... i don't think i have bryopsis (based on checking on algae under the scope), so i can't comment
Sea hare eating green hair. Interesting…
Thanks
Only problem is once they destroy the GHA they will starve and die offer the Lil guy to someone else to eradicate gha
Mine breed like rabbits
That’s awesome- how big is your system
@@TheBioReef 20 gallons
@@A.R.C.77 wow, that is amazing that they are reproducing in a tank that size
@@TheBioReef the adults are max one inch long sorry mine are elysia tomentosa, kinda like a mini sea hare they destroy hair algae
Green tea, Boston
turn your wave makers off , believe me , i lost 25 fish
Mine pooped sand.
was it eating cyano or algae on the sand... i had a sea cucumber that also pooped sand pellets :)
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