Dolabella Sea Hare

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Ugly Algae Eating blob of Jello
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I would love to get one if they didn’t walk around with a c4 style toxic ink in there back pocket all day.

I've had them on and off over the years and never had an issue with ink. From by readings the Dolabella are not the variety of Sea Hares that ink the tank. In the past when they run out of algae they just "went missing" in the tanks. I recently have an issue with hair algae in one of my tanks and I remembered how the ones I've had in the past cleaned it up so I put two more in that tank last week. I usually only see them at night but they are constantly grazing algae.
 

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I would love to get one if they didn’t walk around with a c4 style toxic ink in there back pocket all day.
This specific species doesn't!

I had no idea a completely safe version of these existed before @Tomoko Schum pointed it out.
 

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Sea hares are awesome but when you're out of algae they need to go to a new home. Mine ate all the algae in 2 weeks and I had a pasture of it.
 
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Yeah, I'll just rotate then to another tank when they clean up.
 

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Do these jello blobs of current surfing algae eating glory eat turf algae and Bryopsis or is it just the hair algaes?
 

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They are known to be generalist algae eaters. They feed on a variety of algae such as hair and turf algae, but they also eat red, green, or brown macro algae such as Dictyota. They can be sustained on lettuce supposedly.
 

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What is best for dealing with green film algaes? Or is it snails?
 
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