Sea Hare (Aplysia) – Hair Algae Cleanup

$12.99

The animal people buy when hair algae has gotten away from them. Collected here in the Florida Keys. Grazes hair algae hard, and it is a treatment rather than a permanent resident.

50 in stock

Packing and shipping are charged per box, not per coral. The $10 packing fee covers the insulated box, heat or ice packs and the time it takes to pack live coral safely; overnight UPS is the carrier cost of getting it out of Key West alive. A box typically holds around five small frags, so adding compatible corals to the same shipment usually will not add another packing or shipping charge. Larger colonies, species that cannot share water, or extreme weather can require a second box. Orders with $349 or more in qualifying livestock ship free.

Florida: $30 overnight livestock shipping. Qualifying Florida livestock orders under 6 lb ship overnight for a flat $30, plus the $10 packing fee. Heavier or mixed shipments use our standard overnight rate. Orders with $349 or more in qualifying livestock ship free.

Livestock ships UPS Overnight on Tuesdays and Wednesdays so nothing sits in a facility over a weekend. Livestock ships to the continental U.S. Alaska needs a shipping quote before you order, and we cannot ship livestock to Hawaii — get in touch first.

Description

A sea hare is what you reach for when hair algae has taken a tank over and the snails are losing. They graze it hard and they will strip a rock in days rather than weeks.

Here is the part nobody tells you at the point of sale: once the algae is gone, a sea hare has nothing left to eat, and it starves. Treat it as a treatment, not a permanent resident, and have a plan for where it goes when the job is done. That might be a friend with a problem tank, or a refugium with enough growth to keep it fed.

Two practical notes. Cover or screen your pump and powerhead intakes before you add one, because a sea hare that gets pulled into an impeller is a bad day for the whole tank. And they can release a purple ink if they are badly harassed, so give it a calm tank and do not manhandle it.

We collect these ourselves in the Florida Keys under Florida Aquaculture Certificate #AQ0254072. Size varies with what we bring in.

Shipping & Live Arrival Guarantee

UPS Overnight, Tuesdays and Wednesdays. We hold the box if the weather at either end puts the animals at risk.
UPS Next Day Air, Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Florida livestock orders under 6 lb ship overnight at $30. Other continental-U.S. orders use the applicable overnight rate. Eligible livestock orders of $349 or more ship free. A $10 Box & Handling Fee applies to every livestock shipment, including free-shipping orders. Alaska: contact us for a quote. Hawaii: no livestock shipping.
Live arrival guaranteed. Photograph the animal in the sealed, unopened bag and send it to us within 4 hours of the delivery scan.
Approved claims are resolved with a replacement or store credit. We do not issue cash refunds on livestock.
Coverage is for condition on arrival and ends at acclimation.

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