Sea Hair and Snail deaths :(

[AaronH]

i have just lost my sea hair and cannot understand why. there is plenty off food in there for him and no predators and my levels are fine. i recently lost a snail a week before. anyone got any ideas of whats going on ?

 

[mr_X]

sea hares are not easy to keep. the slightest change in parameters can kill them. what food are you referring to? they only eat certain types of algae.

 

[AaronH]

i dont really know what type of algee it is i have had him for a while and i always warm my water before changeing so i dont think that it is temperature or my starfish may have suffered aswell lool. i think he may have starved thoe because i try n keep front n two sides of my tank clean so the snails n sea hair concentrate on the back wall and the rock but i have stoped cleaning the front of my tank for about 2 weeks now and it is still clean however there is a brown/dark green algee on the back of my tank. and red spots in my sand which i have no clue what they are, i picked one up and it was like a holow shell and crumbled in my fingers. i have no clue what it is doe.

 

[mr_X]

i haven't heard of sea hares eating the flat growing algae that grows on the glass. all the ones that i have seen/heard of have only eaten hair algae. chances are it starved to death.

 

[AaronH]

He used to always be eating of my glass though maby he was just eating the good stuff and i ddnt no it. However i put seaweed in there for my tangs n he had a go at that.

 

[mr_X]

rolling across the glass with his mouth open and actually consuming something are 2 different things.

 

[AaronH]

true that but to actually roll his mouth acroos the glass n leave it clean it afterwards is completley diffrent

 

[rancidpetals]

the red spots in your tank may be slime algae. what kind of flow do you have?