Do sea hares eat bryopsis?

[Marc2952]

i bought a sea hare at my LFS about a week ago amd has cleaned my tank of GHA but hasnt touched any of the bryopsis patches ( i can use fluconazold for now since i just finished using interceptor to get rid of red bugs). Will a sea hare eat it if there is no other algae available? Or will they just rather starve?

 

[rusgum]

Hello. They very rarely eat it and only young shoots. Fluconazole to help you.

 

[Miller535]

I don't know of anything that eats bryopsis, at least not in any meaningful way. Some things will eat the very small barely there stuff like @rusgum said, but even at that not much.

 

[rkpetersen]

Fluconazole is absolutely murder on bryopsis; the stuff just melts away.
I've found it to be less effective against some forms of hair algae though.

 

[Marc2952]

I don't know of anything that eats bryopsis, at least not in any meaningful way. Some things will eat the very small barely there stuff like @rusgum said, but even at that not much.

Ahhh that sucks, so it would rather starve to death then eat the bryopsis if that was the only thing avaliable? I really didnt want to use fluconazole since last time i used it i couldnt use my skimmer for over a month ( wouldnt stop overflowing even after multiple water changes and caused me dinos. My guess is that due to it killing all the algae caused a void where dinos thrived.

 

[Marc2952]

Fluconazole is absolutely murder on bryopsis; the stuff just melts away.
I've found it to be less effective against some forms of hair algae though.

Yea i used it before and cleaned my tank of algae ( even GHA ) in 14 days. The issue is that after i did a water change it caused a massive dino outbreak that took months to fix. That is my only fear with fluconazole, where it not for that i would have dosed it a while ago lol

 

[bam123]

Sea hares will not eat bryopsis.