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04-21-2003, 04:23 PM
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shark bait
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: south of the north pole
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critter i.d.
what is this?
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04-21-2003, 06:56 PM
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Shark
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: wash
Posts: 2,262
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does it move
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04-21-2003, 08:26 PM
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shark bait
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: south of the north pole
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your getting warmer.....
yes it moves.... its a sea hare!
its not the most gracefull of swimmers.... its just a tad faster than molasses on a cold winter's night. hehehe, it got stuck after moving 18" in my tank.... looked like a mushroom....
i placed an order for 2 of them. the smaller one, about 2.5", ran into a lta at the lfs, the outcome wasn't good. this specimen was the other one that arrived. its about the size of a baseball. i bought it to fight my hair algea problem. the smaller one would have been better suited for my tank. i'm not sure if this exact species has an ink gland for defense, i do know that it absorbs some of the chemicals in algea that are considered to be toxic as a defense.
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04-21-2003, 10:16 PM
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Big Fishy
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Windsor, Ontario
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Glad it's useful 'cause it's kinda homely  
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04-21-2003, 11:22 PM
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Reefless Reefer
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Durham, NC
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keep us posted on its effectiveness at eating hair algae. i was looking into getting one also, but have not been to successfull in finding one. do you know what species that one is.
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04-22-2003, 01:13 AM
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shark bait
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: south of the north pole
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geoff,
it is a "dolabella auricularia" . and it looks like i may need to move some rocks around to provide it a path to get around cuz of its big butt. it seems to get stuck often in a few places, not the most intelligent creature...
cat, hehe, its not known to have any "babe magnet" charisma either, and i think that's the reason its a hermie, but it still takes 2 to tango... this species has the ink sack defense, so i am care not to poke and prod it.
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04-23-2003, 01:00 PM
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shark bait
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: south of the north pole
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so far the sea hare is munch'n away on the problem hair algea and red cyano algea on the subrate as well! money well spent! too bad it not a colorfull reef creature, tho, there are some of this species that are red. now if it will only easy apstasia, i would be in heaven!
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04-23-2003, 01:52 PM
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Reefless Reefer
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Durham, NC
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how did you request it from the LFS. did you just ask for a sea hare, or did you know the species you wanted. what area are these from. my LFS needs a lot of hand holding when i need to order a special critter.
great to hear it is munching the algae. i like curious looking critters that you have to hunt down to find. this one fits right in my liking.
G~
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04-23-2003, 04:25 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: PNW
Posts: 257
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Only a reefer would pay $$$ for a piece of goo....
I just had to ask if it was a mottled green thing that appears in both pictures and what exactly is it... a sea slug or a snail?
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04-23-2003, 05:16 PM
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Hail to the Redskins!!
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Gresham, OR
Posts: 1,133
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Oh man, that thing is ugly!!
I want one!! 
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04-23-2003, 06:19 PM
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shark bait
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: south of the north pole
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i just asked the lfs to order a sea hare. i didn't specify what type, but there are several different species to choose from. julian sprung shows 5 different ones pictured in his book "inverts", pg 90-91, under the chapter title "sea slugs", bursatella, dolabella, bolabrifera, and stylocheilus and a small aplysia spp. (like the red aplysia californica).
they are mostly from indo-pacific area of the ocean, north australian coast area. some can get quite large up to 60cm. i paid $15usd for this one.
i can put "it" good use, i know a few members in my local reef club that have an algea problem like mine, maybe they can use "it" for a few weeks or a month, to eat the algea off thier liverocks, that way it has a constant food supply. just an idea tho at the moment!
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04-24-2003, 10:07 AM
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shark bait
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: south of the north pole
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this is what "it" looks like when "it" slammed against the glass wall of my aquarium at full speed. judging by the size of the ripples still ungullating through out it , i estimate it was traveling around 15cm/min. |
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04-24-2003, 10:26 AM
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shark bait
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about 95% of tank is now "clean". the liverock looks great, and the corals around the tank are untouched. even the algea skirt that was around the top of my feather duster is now gone, leaving the duster unscathed, and the space between the mushrooms and leather cabbage had a large patch of nussiance algea that is gone as well.
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04-24-2003, 10:50 AM
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TRT Staff The Mominator
Join Date: Jan 1999
Location: Just South Of Seattle
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Wow, IT has been mowing through that hair algae pretty darn quick. Maybe it's a good thing you didn't get two!
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04-24-2003, 05:28 PM
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Big Fishy
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Windsor, Ontario
Posts: 851
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Wow, that's quite an appetite  So what do you do with it now? Nori maybe?
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