sea hare?

[dsaundry]

I understand you went up in lighting, I am not sure that would cause that much of a problem. As I stated before you still might have a phosphate issue as it can get absorbed by live rock. The extra light may have initiated a bloom but the problem may have already been there.I still would suggest Rowaphos or a similar replacement. Pick out as much of the algae as possible and see what happens. As for the Sea Hare, I am not to familiar with Calgary other than the Deerfoot trail, If your local pet stores get one in, couldn't you put it in an insulated container for transport? When they get stock of course. It might be a bit cold for shipping as I think I heard it was -40 or so. We were only at -10 so a bit warmer but I still wouldn't ship. I have a Ricordea order on hold until it warms up a bit. As for their description ...A slug sort of covers it..Ugly but in a way..Cute.

[pandafishowner]

lol yeah, it's quite cold here. -40C weather right now. our closest LFS is Golds and as I said, they won't have any in stock until next week.

We've been manually removing hair algae for weeks. Since we (hub and I) rely on busses or walking, I'm worried that if we had to wait for a bus downtown or somewhere near another fish store, the sea hare might freeze anyway. That's how cold it is.

Bah, somehow my previous message is missing part of my post. Where it says "We replace that every few months" I was talking about the phosphate bags we use. On the box it says they're good for 3 months, we use them for 2 and then exchange them with a new one. We've been running them ever since we started up our SW tank.

[dsaundry]

Well I guess I am stumped for now, Hopefully someone in your area will be able to lend a Hare your way..Try to keep warm...