Need to borrow a sea hare for about a week

[musicalocean]

Hi
I talked to one of the fellows at warehouse aquarium today & he recommended for me to borrow or buy a sea hare from somebody to control my algae problem. If anybody has one I can keep for a littlewhile or buy please let me know. I would really appreciate it!! Call me at 770-443-5511 or shoot me a PM
thanks
Jody

 

[demifelix]

what kind of algae problem are you having? Maybe there's another option out there..

 

[musicalocean]

It's hair algae & a stiff stalky green type as well. Not sure what kind the second one is but after talking with Doc earlier I may try some mexican turbo snails. I need some anyway I only have like 4 small snails in my whole system hence my little algae problem. It's not too bad yet but I dont want it to get totally out of control & I hated to use any chemicals if I could possibly help it

 

[smoothie]

How long ago did this start?

 

[musicalocean]

Not too long ago but the few patches I have are spreading fairly quick

 

[courterbobby]

Get ya some nerite snails in there also, they will mow down some algae now.

 

[musicalocean]

Will do, thanks Bobby

 

[smoothie]

When you had your livestock die off? Still sorry about that. It sucks.
I would up the cleanup crew and water changes. You should see it go away in the next month doing so. Turn off your flow and scrub with a toothbrush what you can't pull off. Syphon that out and add the new water. Try 20 first and then 10 twice a week

 

[musicalocean]

Yep, it got worse after that. Sounds like a good plan. Thanks Smoothie

 

[crewdawg1981]

Turbos and the scrubing/siphoning plan should definitely do the trick, but I would also offer that for me, spiny urchins destroy hair algae... and coralline but still.

 

[musicalocean]

Thanks, Where did you get your spiny urchins?

 

[musicalocean]

Got 3 mexican turbo snails today & so far they are making some progress