Sea Hare in aquarium

March 25, 2006
From: Dominic Chen

I purchased a sea hare yesterday and it settled into the my aquarium quite nicely, or at least in my opinion it did. late at night i saw it sitting on the sand substrate after it ate some hair algae (which is sorta why i bought it). in any case, i awoke this morning (only about 5 or 6 hours after i saw it) and it was nowhere to be found. it wasn't in the filter nor was it in any rock crevice i could see. it's far too big for it to be hiding in my nanocube. did i overlook something to the affect that it could have crawled out somehow? is it possible for a sea hare to squeeze itself into a crevice that i'm not confident it can?

Locality: irvine, about 1 ft, california, pacific i guess, but aquarium really, 22 march 2006, aquarium. Length: 3 - 4 inches

Dominic Chen

dominicc@uci.edu

Chen, D., 2006 (Mar 25) Sea Hare in aquarium. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/16164

Dear Dominic,
I dont normally answer aquarium problems as I don't want to start an avalanche of questions on what does it eat etc but ... You don't say how deep the sand in your aquarium is. I suspect its burrowed into the sand somewhere
Best wishes,
Bill Rudman

Rudman, W.B., 2006 (Mar 25). Comment on Sea Hare in aquarium by Dominic Chen. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/16164

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