HELP! My new sea hare and my MJ900 got a little too close for comfort

[nugg91]

I recently aclimated a sea hare to my tank and after a couple days of doing an AMAZING job of eating hair algae i woke up to him sucked to the power head. i pulled the guard off the bottom and cut the plast around him to release him but his side and back are all messed up from being sucked for, I don't know how long. Will he survive through this? is there anything I can do to help him recover? Right now I have him secluded under a glass jar in my tank b/c the cleaner shrimp was eating his wound, my clown kept biting him and i was scared my nassarius or hermit would feast on him while i was at work. thanks for the help!

[doublec]

i swear i think someone said if these things die okr shoot the black ink once startled that they will poisen ur whole tank.

[romunov]

If he can have some peace and quiet, he may heal. Not with those kind of predators around, though.

Oh, he will need food, of course.

[Flamehawk]

Sea hare ink is not toxic it is just a smoke screen to get away from predators. I have kept several types of aplysia and dolabrifera sp and the inevitable accident with my tunze has happened a few times. My whole tank has turned light purple from the ink and nothing happened. This has happened at least 5-6 times over the years.
Most sea hares will stop producing red ink entirely after a few weeks if they don't have red macro algae to feed on.

If your guy isn't damaged too badly hares have very good reparative abilities.