Help Making My Powerheads Seahare Friendly..

[zeo]

Hi guys,

Anyone have any ideas on how I can make my seio powerheads sea-hare friendly?

I lost my last seahare to a powerhead - it compressed it to the size of a pound coin.

In recent days (in trying to make my powerheads anemone friendly) I followed some advice and covered all the powerhead inlets with a v.fine mesh (the bags you use for keeping carbon in a filter) but I found that this mesh was too fine, and kept getting clogged by bits of algea and crap. (I have long had a green hair algea problem - part of the reason I want to keep my sea hare around).

I tried to use thick sponges in the pass, but this too seemed to get clogged quite easily and thus not letting water pass throughly.

I replaced the mesh with some old net curtains, the mesh seemed fine and small enough to keep larger objects away, and large enough to allow most of the algea and crap to pass thru.

However today I found my new sea hare stuck to its side on one of the powerheads. I turned the powerhead off and found luckly not too much damage to the sea hare, the bits caught in the powerhead inlet had turned blue but still intact to the body. I then placed it on my LR and it happly expanded its body out and slithered away.

.... So what to do about the powerheads? I've trieds all types of nets & sponges and seem to be out of ideas.

If the net holes are too large seahare (and I guess anemone) will get stucked in.

If the holes are too small - its gets easily restricted with algea and crap and stops the flow of water causing the powerhead to fail.

Anyone else ever had this problem? Any ideas/advice?

Please help.

 

[Adrinal]

The only sure fire thing I can think of is hanging it in such a way that it doesn't touch the glass. One thing I use in my anemone propogation tank is "Ecomat". I have about 50 RBTA and they don't go through that stuff at all.

HTH

Hi guys,

Anyone have any ideas on how I can make my seio powerheads sea-hare friendly?

I lost my last seahare to a powerhead - it compressed it to the size of a pound coin.

In recent days (in trying to make my powerheads anemone friendly) I followed some advice and covered all the powerhead inlets with a v.fine mesh (the bags you use for keeping carbon in a filter) but I found that this mesh was too fine, and kept getting clogged by bits of algea and crap. (I have long had a green hair algea problem - part of the reason I want to keep my sea hare around).

I tried to use thick sponges in the pass, but this too seemed to get clogged quite easily and thus not letting water pass throughly.

I replaced the mesh with some old net curtains, the mesh seemed fine and small enough to keep larger objects away, and large enough to allow most of the algea and crap to pass thru.

However today I found my new sea hare stuck to its side on one of the powerheads. I turned the powerhead off and found luckly not too much damage to the sea hare, the bits caught in the powerhead inlet had turned blue but still intact to the body. I then placed it on my LR and it happly expanded its body out and slithered away.

.... So what to do about the powerheads? I've trieds all types of nets & sponges and seem to be out of ideas.

If the net holes are too large seahare (and I guess anemone) will get stucked in.

If the holes are too small - its gets easily restricted with algea and crap and stops the flow of water causing the powerhead to fail.

Anyone else ever had this problem? Any ideas/advice?

Please help.